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From: Jack Hamilton <jfh@acm.org>
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Subject: Re: plural of "performance"
Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2006 17:41:47 -0800
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cguttman <4everclever4@web.de> wrote:
>Thank you. The usage of performance is indeed a bit illogical to me.
>
>Is there an official source that I can use for citation - e.g. a style
>guide?
English, unlike French or Icelandic, doesn't have an Academy to decide
what's correct. There are several respected style guides (two of the
best known being the Chicago Manual of Style and the Associated Press
Stylebook), and they sometimes disagree - that's why there's more than
one of them. And there are many books about grammar and usage (not the
same thing as style), which will also differ from each other in some
details.
The best bet is to find some well-respected writers in the field you're
writing for, and do what they do.
--
Jack Hamilton
California
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<> Qui vit sans folie n'est pas si sage qu'il croit.
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