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Originally Posted by Quoth
Yes, I don't bother changing USA texts with properly done em dashes. But if I'm fixing a British/Irish book I will do proper spaced en dashes.
A dolly mixture of styles of paragraphing, em vs en with spaces and inconsistent dialogue outer and inner quotes is terrible. Or even on one sentence, ‘Are we going now?”
UK isn't always ‘outer single quotes’, some UK publishers & eras do use “and” and Irish publishers often do. Totally crazy when there is a nested quote and the quote style isn't swapped, that's almost junior school English.
Especially with older books I don't mind British or American styles, spelling and grammar as long as it is a British/Irish book or an American one.
Reading a book at the moment that's mostly UK style and possibly UK author & publisher, but she has watched too much USA TV. It's like an American book translated to British!  |
I don't mind UK words and phrases. But I do prefer US styling with double quotes for speech, en dashes with no space, and ellipses with no space.