Dansk
Hypercorrection: When the pursuit of correctness goes awry
There are no official rules for writing numbers, but a general rule of thumb, however, is to spell out small numbers ranging from one to ten and use…
A colon often precedes an example, an explanation, a list or a quotation.
In Danish usage, a colon is only followed by a capital letter,…
Hello, goodbye!
We write, send and receive emails practically all round the clock, and consequently, electronic mail is an integral and inevitable…
In fact, quotation marks, inverted commas and the so-called ’66 and 99’ are the same, but they come in two typologies: double (“...”) and single…
The ampersand (&), also known as the ‘and sign’, represents the conjunction ’and’. The sign indicates a closer connection than ’and’ and is used to…
Apostrophe or accent?
On hyphens and dashes
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