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Manual of Style
“Quotations”
by, Sharon K. Yntema
September 6, 2016

Do we need quotation marks? Who needs punctuation? Times are a-changing. One of the signs punctuation marks are in flux is the air quotations people make with their fingers when using words ironically. In print, we’ve seen the rise of single quotation marks around sarcastic words or phrases, even though the standard rule for single quotation marks are for use inside double quotation marks to… [Read More]

Filed Under: APA Style, David Crystal, Dialogue, double quotation marks, guillemet, How to Start a Fire and Why, Jesse Ball, Making a Point, Manual of Style, MLA, Punctuation, single quotation marks, The Chicago Manual of Style
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Should The F in Facebook be capitalized?
by, Jill Swenson
August 18, 2012

Should the “f” in Facebook be capitalized? The icon, logo and brand identity of this popular social networking site use the lowercase letter. Brilliant marketing by breaking the style rule. But what is a copyeditor to do? Of course, I googled it. (Notice as a verb, Google is not capitalized). My research revealed lots of posts and comments regarding the marketing genius behind NOT capitalizing Facebook…. [Read More]

Filed Under: capitalization, Facebook, Google, Kate Turabian, Manual of Style, nouns, University of Chicago, verbs
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