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Originally Posted by DNSB
OTOH, I will take no responsibility if you find black SUVs filled with punctuation police parking outside your home.
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Some people really do carry paints and fix missing or extra apostrophes in signage!
Lynn Truss's "Eats shoots and leaves", a book on punctuation, has about 1/3rd dedicated to the subject.
My "New Penguin Dictionary of Abbreviations" doesn't actually address this issue or the pm and am issue. Style guides do.
The most important thing, as DNSB writes, is whatever you pick it must be consistent.
A writer needs a personal style guide with even things such as nosey versus nosy. There are multiple correct spellings in British English. Do not believe "AI" or a spelling checker.