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Re: USAGE: -i/yse vs -i/yze in England (and what the heck,NZ too).

From:Tristan Alexander McLeay <anstouh@...>
Date:Saturday, December 22, 2001, 11:25
At 08.21 p.m. 21.12.2001 -0500, you wrote:
>Aquamarine Demon wrote: > > It's probably not as bad when written... > >I don't know about your handwriting, but in mine the same problem >exists. Apostrophe and closing single quote are exactly identical.
In my handwriting, there's a difference. Apostrophes are written starting just above the current letter's x height; single quotes are generally written starting above that point (although that's less likely when the quote began with a lower-case letter, when a closing quote and an apostrophe might look identical). Tristan