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It is the Guardian, but even so, the orthography here is all over the shop, AE punctuation in quotes: and here. “I am glad to be alive and sorry for the dead,”
by jjgreen 3y ago
It is the Guardian, but even so, the orthography here is all over the shop, AE punctuation in quotes: and here. “I am glad to be alive and sorry for the dead,” she writes, BE punctuation after quotes: what she calls “the singing of the real world”. Cut-and-paste howlers who wrote her firstfull-length biography in 1972.
Hermione Lee is an emeritus professor of English Literature, a bit more care with her copy please.