Interesting. I never thought of that, and don't recall any teacher pointing that out to me when I was a kid either. I think part of the changes in puncutation now days is due to the net. It used to be standard to have two spaces between the end of one sentence and the start of the next (if I remember right) and now it's just one space. People are just so used to typing it that way in emails etc. now days.
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Originally Posted by James_Wilde
Never seen Oxford-street, but I remembered after my post that we used to call quotation marks sixty-sixes and ninety-nines, so that we would remember which came first. Thus:
66Hello,99 he said.
There was a good joke in Playboy on that theme.  |