Timeline for How are "yes" and "no" formatted in sentences?
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| Oct 21 at 13:50 | answer | added | jsx97 | timeline score: 3 | |
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| Jan 14, 2020 at 1:21 | answer | added | Coby Ingram | timeline score: 1 | |
| Mar 20, 2019 at 19:06 | answer | added | Michael | timeline score: 0 | |
| Oct 20, 2012 at 10:50 | comment | added | Edwin Ashworth | @OC: I don't understand your original question - as it stands, "I'm expecting the answer 'No,' , or "I'm expecting that the answer will be no," would seem more logical. | |
| Oct 20, 2012 at 10:32 | answer | added | S.soundarapandian | timeline score: 0 | |
| Jan 12, 2012 at 16:03 | history | edited | JSBձոգչ |
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| Apr 28, 2011 at 2:01 | comment | added | user1579 | @MrHen: Chambers, it say "yes(s)es". So either goes, though for no good reason at all I prefer the single 's' version. | |
| Apr 27, 2011 at 12:26 | comment | added | user1579 | @MrHen: Wiktionary claims "yeses". I'll check Chambers when I get home. | |
| Apr 21, 2011 at 13:05 | comment | added | MrHen | @Rhodri: Ah, thank you. Do you know about "yeses" or "yesses"? | |
| Apr 20, 2011 at 23:59 | comment | added | user1579 | @MrHen: one picky, slightly irrelevant thing: I believe the plural of "no" is "noes". | |
| Apr 20, 2011 at 19:16 | vote | accept | MrHen | ||
| Apr 18, 2011 at 21:09 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackEnglish/status/60087578468163584 | ||
| Apr 18, 2011 at 17:43 | answer | added | Jason Orendorff | timeline score: 6 | |
| Apr 18, 2011 at 16:49 | answer | added | user1579 | timeline score: 16 | |
| Apr 18, 2011 at 16:33 | comment | added | MrHen | @Robusto: Heh. I find it worth looking at what other people/styles do. My personal preferences don't always mesh with the rest of the world's use of English. (Especially when it comes to punctuation.) | |
| Apr 18, 2011 at 16:27 | comment | added | Robusto | @MrHen: Oh, if that's what you want it to be, I'd have to say the answer must be no. If you hadn't expressed a preference we could have allowed it, but I'm afraid now you're just S.O.L. =) Seriously, unless you're writing under the constraints of a style guide that specifically mentions this use case, I'd say do as you like. Nobody is going to trip over it. | |
| Apr 18, 2011 at 16:11 | comment | added | Cerberus - Reinstate Monica | @MrHen: That is exactly why most people agree with you and leave out the quotation marks, or so I believe. I'd leave them out in most contexts. Perhaps I'd add them if I wanted to emphasize that I was indeed quoting someone. | |
| Apr 18, 2011 at 15:18 | answer | added | Konrad Rudolph | timeline score: 1 | |
| Apr 18, 2011 at 14:51 | comment | added | MrHen | @Robusto: That is what I want the answer to be... but mostly just for brevity. I hate wrapping one small word in quotes. | |
| Apr 18, 2011 at 14:39 | comment | added | Robusto | Good question. I myself would say "The answer is no." But let's see what others say. | |
| Apr 18, 2011 at 14:29 | history | asked | MrHen | CC BY-SA 3.0 |