I’m not sure how long running this is, but I just noticed that one of the blogs on The Guardian has a grammar quiz. I did very well, but these were softball questions. I did not know the “and” trick to separate adjectives, despite knowing the rule intuitively. I understand the apprehension that the author has about getting into the apostrophes and quotations rules, since they differ between Britain and America for English (Note: I thought I had written about this but cannot find it). Wikipedia has started to adopt the British rules, for some strange reason, and it’s becoming widespread. I wonder if it Wikipedia is ubiquitous enough to influence this adoption. There are some but not all rules that I agree with in the British system — I would argue for a hybrid system combining the most logical elements of both. The reason for my disagreement with certain British elements is because of the largely ambiguous nature of the cases in which quotation marks are placed inside and outside the closing punctuation marks.
Blog note: it has been awhile since I’ve updated this regularly, despite having found several errors. I hope that changes with more time.
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