Like I said- we have a supplier, so we dont need them ringing or knocking. But if we didnt we would make that exception.
People who open a parenthetical with a comma, but omit the closing comma.
eg:
Susan Brown, RN, is the newest addition to our staff.
In 1975 the president, Gerald Ford, was the target of two would-be assassins
Abraham Lincoln was born on February 12th, 1809, and lived until he died.
Omitting the second comma in each of those three sentences is the same as opening with a parenthesis but omitting the closing parenthesis.
I guess I dont get it, but the examples do have a second comma?
Omitting the second comma in such cases bothers me a little, but omitting the period at the end of a sentence bothers me a lot more.
Of course – I wrote them correctly, I wouldn’t want to confuse people by including only one, and then talking about the second one!
Gaudere’s Law in action!
the Xth century. Why call it that? Why not- the 1900s, the 1300s, etc?
The use of the word bartering instead of the correct term, haggling.
On a lot of social media sites, travellers (often to SE Asia and other lesser developed regions of the world) gleefully look forward to visiting markets and BARTERING with the local vendors.
It makes my teeth hurt.
Yep. Unless they are trading with them, it can also be called bargaining.