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Tag: Harts Rules

  • Horace Hart: the fascinating creator of an Oxford classic

    Shortly after I became Editorial Assistant at OUP, my manager lent me a book called New Hart’s Rules: The Handbook of Style for Writers and Editors. It’s a useful and interesting book for an editor, as it tells you: to avoid the greengrocer’s apostrophe (e.g. lettuces instead of lettuce’s) the correct way to indicate stammering,…