h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I would Mr D, but luckily I haven't experienced that.

Until now.

There's a difference between the vertical ones and the tilted open and close ones isn't there> I can't remember the technical terms.

MS Word is a pain, and 'tis at it's most obvious when you have to use an apostrophe at the beginning of a word.

You can easily turn off "Smart Quotes" in Word.

Oh yes, Word is a pain. When I want to write something in English it often auto-corrects words because it thinks it's supposed to be German! It always wants to replace its by ist. I don't know how many of those I had to change back already. I think I meanwhile turned that off.

I know. I shouldn't have to though, should I?

It's not too much to ask it to recognise 'tis, 'til, 'em, 'igginbottom, and other words with bit missing at the start, is it?

Maybe it is.

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I quite like a bit of autocorrect. Means I get away with my habit of typing 'teh' & 'adn'.

I've seen 'cello and even 'phone.

>>Does anyone else cringe when single quotes are done `thus' and double quotes are done ''thus''? Or even ``thus''?<<

If you were typesetting something in LaTeX (<./>http://www.latex-project.org/</.&gt, that's exactly what you'd put in the source file...

I never knew that about Irish, Gnomon - that really perked up my day.

Let's not forget the best use of quotation marks... erroneously used for emphasis and therefore indicating "something other than".

http://www.unnecessaryquotes.com/

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Oh yes... I "really" like that website.

I get pretty annoyed when people insist on writing 'fridge instead of refrigerator

And how hard is it to make the effort to write omnibus rather than 'bus?

Bloody ugly quote sign. I blame the French.

(And I've now switched my spell check to Australian English).

Whoops apostrophe...

"Whoops apostrophe": A modern reworking of "Whoops apocalypse", but set in a library.

More films should be set in libraries.

"The Cook The Thief His Wife Her Lover" has a great scene in a library.

So does Ghostbusters.

I wrote a version of MacBeth that was set in a library for school...

The scene in ghostbusters is good. The scene in the cook the thief has a naked helen mirran.

Yeah, but doesn't practically everything she's been in have a nude scene?