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Entry ID: A295463 (Edited)

leaves, and the fact

Princess of Wales Conservatory at Kew ?

1980s, there

This is the only one, of five Entries listed on the front page, that doesn't show the update date.

[Incidentally, wouldn't it be more accurate to say 'Last Amended on'? 'Updated on XXXX' seems to imply that the entire Entry has been brought up to date, and not just a typo or a bad link corrected.]

In this case, the entire entry was rewritten, so Updated makes sense.

First point: use of semicolon instead of comma. I sub-edited this, and I chose to use a semicolon-delimited list rather than a comma-delimited list, because the individual items in the list had commas within them.

OK, I've added the "Updated" message, and done all the other points except the semicolon.

Thanks, Gnomon.

However:

"use of semicolon instead of comma"

"to join two complete sentences into a single written sentence when the two sentences are too closely related to be separately by a full stop and [there is no connecting word which would require a comma such as 'and' or 'but'] http://www.rogerdarlington.co.uk/punctuation.html

Off to lunch

Yes, but further down in that punctuation guide, you'll find:

There is a minor use of the semicolon:

to separate items in a list when one or more of those items contains a comma [The speakers included: Tony Blair, the Prime Minister; Gordon Brown, the Chancellor of the Exchequer; and Ruth Kelly, Secretary of State for Education & Skills.]

Just back to apologise.

You're quite right, Gnomon.

I must have been half-asleep this morning.

It probably comes from being flustered rather than rude.

I'm sure you're right.