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Darkwing wrote:
cool plane. I seen one in person at the Dayton Air Museum, it was smaller than I thought. But they had the Valkyrie there to and that thing is HUGE! When the Smithsonian had there's in it's own temporary hangar it looked small. Now that I've had to walk around that thing a gazillion times it seems a lot larger. |
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Ron Natalie wrote
When the Smithsonian had there's in it's own temporary hangar it looked small. RON!! I don't believe it! "their's".....:-) Bob Moore |
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Bob Moore wrote:
Ron Natalie wrote When the Smithsonian had there's in it's own temporary hangar it looked small. RON!! I don't believe it! "their's".....:-) I hate spelling flames, but I guess I can handle an apostrophe flame. It's "theirs" and "its", as in "had theirs in its own temporary hangar". .... Alan -- Alan Gerber PP-ASEL gerber AT panix DOT com |
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Alan Gerber wrote
It's "theirs" and "its", as in "had theirs in its own temporary hangar". Whoops! Bob |
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Bob Moore wrote:
Whoops! Bob whoops or oops? I can never get totally comfortable with this language ![]() Ramapriya |
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Alan Gerber wrote:
Bob Moore wrote: Ron Natalie wrote When the Smithsonian had there's in it's own temporary hangar it looked small. RON!! I don't believe it! "their's".....:-) I hate spelling flames, but I guess I can handle an apostrophe flame. It's "theirs" and "its", as in "had theirs in its own temporary hangar". Had "its" in "its" hangar. The Smithsonian is considered a singular entity. I spent too many years with Strunk & White's "Elements of Style". *sigh* |
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Blanche wrote: The Smithsonian is considered a singular entity. Unless you're British :-) |
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Then you would know that periods always go inside quotation marks. :-)
Blanche wrote: I spent too many years with Strunk & White's "Elements of Style". *sigh* |
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Trivia: This is why periods always go inside the quotation marks (helps me
remember): In the old days of mechanical printing presses and manual typesetting, the letter pieces looked similar to the strikers on old typewriters; rectangular pieces of metal. A period piece [.] was only half as wide as a double-quote [' '] and if it was at the end of a line, which is common at the end of quotes or paragraphs, the half-width, full-heighth period piece could lean just a little and eventually wiggle lose. As the inking/printing mechanism moved over the wayward period, the piece could snap off and monkey up the works. To compensate for this, printing press operators and typesetters ignored the editors made a command decision: They started tucking the [.] inside the square [' '] piece in order to secure it and hold it still. According to an old typesetter at the Oregon State printing press, that's why the period goes inside the quote as such: [.][' '] (end of line) -c "RomeoMike" wrote in message ... Then you would know that periods always go inside quotation marks. :-) I spent too many years with Strunk & White's "Elements of Style". *sigh* |
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As the inking/printing mechanism
moved over the wayward period, the piece could snap off and monkey up the works. .... except that the last piece of type is also held in place by something. We had a discussion here some time ago about this very thing, and I think the conclusion was that this was an OWT. Jose -- "There are 3 secrets to the perfect landing. Unfortunately, nobody knows what they are." - (mike). for Email, make the obvious change in the address. |
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