http://www.idleanalytics.com/2005/01/22/lpp4/ Semi-scientific thoughts, explanations, and musings on the world Mon, 28 Jan 2013 17:25:33 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.40 http://www.idleanalytics.com/2005/01/22/lpp4/comment-page-1/#comment-14 Sun, 23 Jan 2005 10:17:53 +0000 http://www.idleanalytics.com/index.php/?p=38#comment-14 In standard American English, however, one does not use single quotes in that manner. One may use double quotes, italicization, or underlining to indicate what Diana Hacker, in her A Writer's Reference, refers to as "words as words," but I choose not to, as it is perfectly clear without them.

]]> http://www.idleanalytics.com/2005/01/22/lpp4/comment-page-1/#comment-13 Sun, 23 Jan 2005 10:06:09 +0000 http://www.idleanalytics.com/index.php/?p=38#comment-13 Also 'complimentary' means 'free', and 'complementary' means something like "completes". Notice my wonderful use of scare quotes, once again, to set off a word being used as an object in a sentence, and not part of the grammatical construct of the sentence itself (hint, hint, grammar grinch).

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