Random pet peeve
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pneRandom pet peeve: people who use ` (grave accent) as an apostrophe, as in "Joan`s dress". Or ´ (acute accent), which I've seen in German texts.
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Date: Monday, 16 February 2004 19:26 (UTC)I hate people who, for no good reason, use ` or `` instead of ' or ".