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2019-05-01 04:20 pm
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Hot Dryden on Jonson action

That is the title acquired along the way by this history of the "never end a sentence with a preposition" debate.
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/004454.html
Also, I now like Ben Jonson a lot better, and I am enchanted by the image of Dryden and Jonson getting into a grammar smackdown.
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2009-09-26 12:33 pm
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Should braille be capitalized?

LJ user selkiechick and I were talking about this, and we both admitted we mostly spelled it with a capital because our spellchecker programs kept nagging us.

According to NBP, however,
the embossed alphabet is a lowercase b and only Louis Braille gets the uppercase b
http://www.nbp.org/ic/nbp/braille/capitalize.html .

Now I can go tell my spellchecker to lay off.
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