[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Well, you're certainly welcome.

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"Aalaan" wrote in message
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There's a subtle reason for that! BTW, while I have your attention thanks
a
million for the many hours you've saved me over various Word kinks.

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message
...
Really and truly Aalaan and not, say, Alan? I noticed that you entered
it
as
Aalan once earlier. g

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"Aalaan" wrote in message
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As it is my name, I do.

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message
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Well, that depends on whether you characterize "Aalaan" as
"sensible."
g
It's better than some we see here, at least.

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"Aalaan" wrote in message
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I've changed it. I'll crawl away to my glass of wine and the TV news
now
;-(

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message
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I am on the side of anyone who prefers "I" to 'i" for the personal
pronoun
(and sensible grammar in general), but I also have a preference
for
people
who use sensible screen names.

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"aalaan" wrote in message
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touché!

But I thought you were on my side.

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message
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For someone who wants to rid the world of 'i', what sort of
name
is
"aalaan"?

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"aalaan" wrote in message
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No I don't wish to 'eliminate the World from the small 'i' but
I
would
like
to do it the other way round! Your error of order is a bit
like
the
classic
advert 'Piano wanted by lady with bulbous legs'

"Terry Farrell" wrote in message
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I was forgetting your crusade to eliminate the World from the
small
'i'
and
other grammatical menaces of using phone texting shorthand
out-of-context.
g

Terry


"aalaan" wrote in message
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Agreed about the need for a capital if one should exist
anyway,
such
as
'I' (that much neglected character) but certainly nor as a
matter
of
course after a semicolon.

"Terry Farrell" wrote in message
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To expand on those correct answers: as with all grammar
rules,
this
one
may be broken! The first character following the colon
should
be
capitalised when a capital is normally demanded. For
example,
the
phrase
following may be a quote that starts with a capital, a
proper
name
follows or simply 'I'. The rule isn't absolute.

To make matter worse, there are some writing circles that
insist
on
capitalising after a colon. But that is only in US English
and
not
in
British or International English.

Allen Wyatt who publishes a Word Tips Newsletter, once
provided
a
tip
for capitalising after a colon stating that Word only had
a
built
in
tool for capitalising after a Stop. He genuinely believes
that
it
should
capitalise following a colon too, so he produced a macro
tool.

--
Terry Farrell - MS Word MVP

"justme" wrote in
message
...
I was just trying to figure out a simple grammar question
and
could
not
find
a way to ask Word 2003 my question. My question is
simply:

When I've combined two sentences with a semi-colon, is it
proper
to
capitalize the first word of the second sentence or not?