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Give me a chance to find it among my piles of paper (it is in notebook,
handwritten), and I can put it together at some point and distribute it to
anyone interested. It may take me a couple of weeks, though. I've got a
few things on my plate I have to take care of first.
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|Traci wrote:
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|> It's quite possible it's just a dialect thing. Fowler's does accept
both.
|> I just go by what is considered acceptable by the majority of books.
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|> eight years ago, I picked certain grammar points and went through about
|> recognized 30 style and grammar books from Canada, the USA and Britain.
I
|> chose what the majority use and stick to that, so when I get a client
|coming
|> back, disagreeing about something I put, even though both are correct, I
|can
|> send pages from five or more style books instead of just one.
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|I'm intrigued by this, especially being a Brit writing in (what I hope is)
|American English. I would love to find the time to do something similar (I
|can get so pedantic when I want to!)...
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|How many points did you research on? What were there? Which style/grammar
|books did you use?
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|Do you have this information (answers to my questions and/or your personal
|grammar/style guide) in any distributable form that you would be willing to
|share with us?
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