Re: Quotes vs. Single Quote

On 6 August 2010 16:18, Bill Guion <bguion@comcast.net> wrote: > At 8:31 AM -0400 08/06/10, tedd wrote: > >> Cheers, >> >> tedd >> >> PS: Considering that this is Friday. I have a grammar question for the >> group. I said above: >> >> "neither CSS, PHP, or any web language exist in a vacuum." >> >> Is the word "neither" appropriate in this sentence? >> >> Normally, two items can be compared by "neither"  or "nor", but what >> about >> more than two items? Is it appropriate to use "neither"  or "nor" for >> more >> than two items? > > Somewhere along the line, probably in college (if it were before college, it > would have been so long ago I would have forgotten it), a professor said to > handle this sort of thing thusly: > > neither A, nor B, nor C .... > > A little more wordy, but completely unambiguous. "neither CSS, PHP, nor any web language exist in a vacuum." would probably do. All negatives, so little wiggle room really.