RE: FN-FORUM: 10 Grammar Mistakes That Make You Look Stupid

date posted 19th May 2007 19:51

I demand that Ben Johnson (Neogic) F [EMAIL REMOVED] may (or may not) have written:

>
> > Comma after e.g. and i.e.? Is that an American thing?
>
> I use "e.g., .." because it better represents what the abbreviation
> stands for: "for example, ". Granted, though, it's quite punctuation
> heavy.
>
> The Economist Style Guide says you should use a comma, but can get
> away without the abbreviation full stops (i.e., "ie, ..") but that
> looks slightly odd to my eyes and MS Spell Check gives you a hard
> time!

Personally I'd never put a comma after them, and never have in 30
years professional writing or put both periods in, no matter how
"right" it theoretically is. (Unless house style demanded it, of
course.)

> PS: My cardinal sin until recently was "seperate" instead of "separate". :)

Mnemonic for you: "separate" has got a "a rat" in it. It always used
to get me until I learned that.



Steve

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