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To: garjog

The thread’s title should hava a period at the end.


5 posted on 07/28/2012 8:57:58 PM PDT by rickomatic
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To: rickomatic

An interesting tid-bit I have noticed through the years is that a century ago, all signage would end with a period at the end. For instance, you wouldn’t see a sign that said

Walgreens

but one that said

Walgreens.

Another archaic convention was to hyphenate compound words much more than we do now. “To-day;” “tid-bit.” I lost a spelling bee over it.


107 posted on 07/29/2012 7:39:56 AM PDT by Erasmus (Zwischen des Teufels und des tiefen, blauen Meers)
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