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7.27 Punctuation in salutations
In business letters and printed speeches, a colon follows the salutation. In personal letters, a comma follows the salutation.
Dear Dr. Jones:
Dear Jimmy,
Spring is in Lethbridge. The buds are opening, flowers are coming up, and the grass is green.
The apple trees on 5 Avenue South downtown are blossoming; they look beautiful and smell great.
I don’t walk home down that block often, but I’ve noticed the blossoms lately, and I would’ve kicked myself had I missed a shot of them before they disappeared.
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5.24 Comparative and inclusive numbers
Join consecutive numbers with and or or, except when intermediate quantities are available.
Our seats are in rows 5 and 6. (not 5 to 6)
The temperature ranged from 10 to 11 °C. (not 10 or 11)
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14.06 Titles of occupations
Eliminate titles and terms that suggest a job is not typically performed by persons of one sex. Do not feminize occupational titles by adding ess, ette, or ix, as in manageress, usherette, or executrix.
I’m not sure what it is, but I have seen an increase in the use of the nonesensical word monthiversary lately. It’s used to refer to a monthly celebration of a certain date (This is our third monthiversary).
The problem is that there is already a word for monthly celebrations. It’s mensiversary.
Sure, the naysayers will claim you can’t find mensiversary in the dictionary. But consider where you can find it:
Sure, mensiversary isn’t common (if it were, no one would have made up a new word to mean the same thing), but it certainly came first and showed a widespread usage among different authors (including academics).
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1.03 Periods
Use periods with most lower-case abbreviations (mph is one exception).
