Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/01/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I love this sort of thing: Oxford English Dictionary: Unquote (vb., intrans.) Used as a formula in dictation, etc.: terminate the quotation. OED cites ee cummings (1935) and--this ought to cinch it--the -New Yorker- (1969). No editor of whom I am aware would challenge the OED in matters of usage. CH At 03:13 PM 1/21/99 -0500, you wrote: >"Unquote" is absurd in American English and is never seen. It is assuredly >not used in Telex communications. "End Quote" is normal. I review a >number of business Telex's in the course of my law practice, and have never >seen "unquote" used in the way you suggest, though it might have been so >used, back in the '30's, when you could have gotten a discount for the use >of one word (UNQUOTE) in place of two (END QUOTE). Certainly, all >government and military communications have always used END QUOTE. > >Sorry, but you're wrong, at least for present usage. > >Marc > >msmall@roanoke.infi.net FAX: +540/343-7315 >Cha robh bas fir gun ghras fir! >