Bruce Beckham's Blog - Posts Tagged "apostrophe"
Perils of the typeface
I have recently been writing some dialogue in the East Midlands vernacular.
Natives of this part of England don't generally recognise the initial letter 'h'.
So, for example, the expression help him would be pronounced 'elp 'im.
I prefer to write in Times New Roman, which is a serif typeface. (It is believed to be easier to read.)
Times New Roman has two versions of the apostrophe: one with its tail curling to the right (open quote) and one curling to the left (close quote).
Trouble is, when I write 'elp 'im. I want the ones curling to the left - but Word makes me have the ones curling right! It's a heck of a job trying to fool the programme!
Of course, you will have noticed that THIS blog typeface has only one kind of apostrophe - it curls neither way.
Now that is a practical solution.
Natives of this part of England don't generally recognise the initial letter 'h'.
So, for example, the expression help him would be pronounced 'elp 'im.
I prefer to write in Times New Roman, which is a serif typeface. (It is believed to be easier to read.)
Times New Roman has two versions of the apostrophe: one with its tail curling to the right (open quote) and one curling to the left (close quote).
Trouble is, when I write 'elp 'im. I want the ones curling to the left - but Word makes me have the ones curling right! It's a heck of a job trying to fool the programme!
Of course, you will have noticed that THIS blog typeface has only one kind of apostrophe - it curls neither way.
Now that is a practical solution.
