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Originally Posted by Engine Serang
Always was a great fan of Keith Waterhouse. Recommend all to read (except YM who was educated down under) Waterhouse on Newspaper Style.
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YM doesn't need educating having spent 50 years in the University of Hard Knocks.
Haven't come across Waterhouse but I am sure that half the population down here in Oz could benefit. I was brought up on the
Australian Government Style Manual for Authors and Printers which covered pretty much everything in relation to the written/printed word. The abbreviated version of which was known colloquially as
Tits for Typists.
It's an indictment on our education system that so many don't know the difference between the possessive and the plural with apostrophes and when it is pointed out to them they either don't care or they take offence and ignore it anyway. I have a friend who has an MA from Melbourne Uni and who is currently doing a PhD; he falls in this group.
