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“the turn of the nineteenth century” or “the turn of the twentieth century”? It seems that since the...years 1800 to 1899 have been referred to as the nineteenth century, then the turn from 1899 to 1900...should be referred to as “the turn of the nineteenth century.” Please advise. A. There is no...

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nineteenth century” or “at the turn of the twentieth century”? Most of the writers I’ve edited use the...latter, but I’ve always thought the former makes more sense, in that the nineteenth century is doing...beginning of the twentieth century,” or “at the end of the nineteenth century,” or “in the years...

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or italicized symbols with no apostrophes? A. To channel Bartleby (Melville’s fictional nineteenth ...

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sources from the nineteenth century. Does that count as old? These sources seem to have idiosyncratic...

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FAQ Item Capitalization Q. I am an editor of a nineteenth-century writer’s manuscripts. We are...

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footnotes and bibliography? I want to reference a published nineteenth-century auction catalog that...

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Semicolon; or, A Nineteenth-Century Mark The semicolon may seem oddly out of place on the home row...the nineteenth century. Middlemarch, by George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans), was first published in the...into the depths. If semicolon usage in the other nineteenth-century novels tends to be more...

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Google Books’ Ngram Viewer shows their usage in American English beginning in the early nineteenth century....

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that the fabled nineteenth hole is often so spelled. Whatever you decide, let consistency and clarity be your guide....

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eighteenth- and nineteenth-century English literature? Whilst you dwell on your response, is there...

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