The Importance of the Proof-Reader; a Paper Read Before the Club of Odd Volumes, in Boston
The Importance of the Proof-Reader; a Paper Read Before the Club of Odd Volumes, in Boston
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An- other difference from the English practice is that of omitting the comma after the given number of a street, as, " 274 Washington Street." In this case, the gram- matical reason for placing the comma after the number is that there are not 274 Washington streets^ but that the meaning is No. 274 (j/* Washington Street. Many authors and printers vary also in the capi- talization of certdn compound titles or names, as, the " Charles River," the " river Thames," " New York City," the "city of Bo...ston," the " Blue Hills," Digitized by Google tl^e l^of^teatiet 19 the "White Mountains," — the words River^ City^ and Mountain beginning with a capital letter or with a small letter according to their position in the sentence. When two nouns are jointly used, the first serving as a qualifying adjective to the second, a hyphen should be inserted between them. Writers and printers fre- quently omit the hyphen in such cases, causing an unnecessary obscurity to the reader ; thus, " Colonel Baden-Powell, when in West Africa, fell in love with a native saying, * Softly, softly ; catchee monkey !
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