Making a Point (35 page)

Ford, Richard
199

forward slash
333
–
4

Fowler, Henry Watson
104
,
182
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3
,
219
,
235
,
252
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3
,
256
,
260
,
262
,
266
–
7
,
283

Franks, Augustus
2

Franks casket
2
–
3

full-block style
126
–
7

full stop
see
period

G

Gaertner-Johnston, Lynn
126
–
7

genre
see
stylistic varieties

glossaries
10
,
18

Good Child's Book of Stops, The
86

Gowers, Ernest
182
,
253
,
255
,
258
,
261
,
283

Gowers, Rebecca
253

grammar
27
,
50
,
55
,
80
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84
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108
–
9
,
140
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42
,
157
,
189
,
224
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5
,
230
,
241
,
268
,
330
,
352

parallelism
206
,
225
,
232
,
253

grammatical/semantic vs phonetic/elocutional/rhetorical approaches
28
,
39
,
55
,
61
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4
,
84
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5
,
191
,
217
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18
,
236
,
346

graphic design
111
–
12
,
318
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26

graphology
351

Gray, Thomas
68
–
9

greengrocers
see
apostrophe

Gregory, St
17

Gutenberg, Johannes
32

H

Hale, Constance
328
–
9

Hall, Nigel
358

hand mark
82
,
335

handwriting
100
,
128
,
130
–
31
,
144
,
161
,
197
,
319
,
326

Hanff, Helene
185

hanging hyphen
270

hanging indention
128
–
9

Harrod, Charles Henry
285
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6

Hart, Horace
79
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81
,
251
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262
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268
,
309
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311
,
315
,
321
,
324

Hart, John
38
,
43
,
260

hash
335
–
6

hashtag
335

Hazlitt, William
208

heavy vs light punctuation
52
,
61
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64
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6
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81
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101
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103
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112
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13
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135
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165
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177
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207
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244
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252
,
308
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9

hedera
15
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115
,
118

Herrick, Robert
194

Herson, Benjamin D
294
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5

hierarchy
84
,
104
–
5
,
107
–
10
,
345
–
6
,
354
–
5

Historical Thesaurus
119
–
20
,
128

Hughes, Ted
139
–
40

hyphen
260
–
72
,
318

early uses
46
,
82

first recorded use
37

floating/hanging
270

in Jane Austen
101

in names
271
–
2

vs comma
101
–
2

vs dash
145
–
7

vs period
137

vs space
3
,
262
–
70
,
331

with inflections
271

I

IATEFL
174
,
179

identity

shown by apostrophes
288
–
9

shown by hyphens
271
–
2

incompleteness
157
–
66

indentation/indention
80
,
119
,
126
–
33

child usage
128
–
9

hanging/reverse
128
–
9

old styles
131

indexes
128
,
224
,
301

index mark
82
,
258
,
335

inscriptions
9

Internet
327
–
39

angle brackets
303
,
334

apostrophes
290
–
92

asterisks
332

domain names
6
,
8
,
136
,
223
,
270
–
71
,
291
,
331
,
334

ellipsis dots
162
–
3
,
166

exclamation marks
179
–
81

hyphenation
262

italics
326

paragraphing
127

period omission
138
,
142
,
171
–
2

semicolons
207

URLs
198

website designers
319
–
20

see also
emoticon

interpunct
19
,
134

interrobang
42
,
186

interrogation
see
question

interruptions
153
–
4

intonation
see
tone of voice

inverted commas
see
quotation marks

inverted marks
187

irony marks
339

italics
132
,
197
,
318
–
26

in loanwords
324

in titles
322
–
3

with punctuation
325
–
6

ivy-leaf
15
,
115

J

Jay-Z
271

Johnson, Samuel, Dr
64
,
176
,
266

Jones, Cynan
94

Jonson, Ben
50
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52
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57
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62
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67
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8
,
134
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202
,
278
–
9

Jonsonians vs Wordsworthians
67
–
9

Joyce, James
93
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4
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104
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169
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189
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315
,
347
,
355
,
360

K

Keats, John
68

keyboards
147
,
179
,
264
,
309
,
320
,
327

Kimmelman, Ken
359

L

language policy
356
–
7

LARR test
357
–
8

layout
111
–
24
,
318

Ledgard, F W
108

Leigh, Percival
90
,
176
,
352
,
360

Leinstein Madame
86

length of constructions
236
–
9
,
265
,
315

letter-writing
131
,
178
–
9
,
226
,
327

Lewis, Mark
55

ligatures
12
,
21

light punctuation
see
heavy vs light punctuation

Lily, William
50

Lindisfarne Gospels
13

Ling, Rich
173
–
4

lists
129
–
30
,
148
,
195
,
270
,
301

literacy
114
,
127
,
345

liturgy
22
,
115
,
347

Lloyds story
286
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7

Lowth, Bishop
56
,
60
,
61
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83
,
176

ludic function
346

M

Mackay, David
121
–
3

Mackellar, Thomas
71
–
2

Maggin, Elliot S!
185
–
6

magic number five/seven
236
–
9
,
247
,
297

Marlowe, Christopher
49
–
50

Mason, C P
281

Maugham, Somerset
214
–
15

maximalism
327

Mayer, Peter
200

McCarthy, Cormac
92
–
4
,
105
,
168
,
315
,
327

McGough, Roger
167
–
8

McKean, Erin
215

McWhorter, John
242
,
253

Memors, The
116
–
18
,
157

metalanguage
358

Microsoft Word
115

Miller, George
236

Miller, Michael
207

Milne, A. A.
30
,
178

minimalism
92
–
6
,
254
,
327

miscues
5
,
203
–
4
,
269

monasteries
16
–
17
,
23
–
4
,
26

Morgenstern, Christian
359

Moxon, Edward
68

Moxon, Joseph
75

Mulcaster, Richard
45
–
6
,
57

Murray, John
69
,
100

Murray, Lindley
59
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61
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63
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72
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76
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3
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102
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144
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167
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218
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235
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251
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256
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309
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332
,
334
–
5

N

names

and hyphens
271

and italics
324

nesting brackets
297

Norris, Mary
214

note of exclamation
37

O

obelisk
82
,
335

oral fluency
352
–
3

orthography
351

Orwell, George
209

outdenting
15
,
126
,
128

Oxford comma
251

Oxford English Dictionary

comma policy
264
–
6

first usages
37
,
283

Historical Thesaurus
119
,
128

Oxford Gazette
113
,
131

P

paragraph
125
–
33

length
125

mark
82

quotation marks with
310

vs section
115
–
16

parallelism
see
grammar

parallels
82
,
335

paraph
27
,
82
,
115

parentheses
295
–
306

early uses
46
,
51

frequency
228

vs comma
298
–
300

vs dash
148
–
50
,
298
–
9

vs quotation marks
298
–
9

Parker, Henry
102

Partridge, Eric
253
,
347

pausing
21
–
2
,
62
,
159
–
60

formula
38
,
60
,
71
,
76
,
86
,
108
,
216

percontation point
194
,
339

period
134
–
43

early uses
46

first recorded use
37

frequency
228

in abbreviations
137
–
8

Internet use
170
–
75
,
331

priority of
84
,
108

teaching
107
–
8

vs colon
220
–
23

vs semicolon
202
–
8

with questions
196
–
7

pilcrow
27
,
115
–
16

Pine-Coffin, R S
7

Pinter, Harold
159
–
60
,
166

pipe
334

place-names

and apostrophes
288

and hyphens
272

Plain English Campaign
120

plays, punctuation in
47
–
50
,
53