Grammatically Correct: The writer's essential guide to punctuation ...

use, to take them down into the market-place and sell them to the
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cannibals, who kill them and eat them for food. This they also do with
younger persons when they fall into any desperate sickness.'
.... The viscount was enthralled.
'I do like this book,' he said; 'could I buy it out of my pocket-money,
please?'
'Another problem for uncles,' thought Lord Peter, rapidly ransack­
ing his recollections of the Cosmographia to determine whether any
of its illustrations were indelicate; for he knew the duchess to be
straitlaced. On consideration, he could only remember one that was
dubious, and there was a sporting chance that the duchess might
fail to light upon it.
-DoROTHY SAYERS, The Learned Adventure of the Dragon's Head
I was in love with Kiyo Yamada. He would take me back to Osaka
with him and we would live in a house with rice paper shoji screens
and tatami mats. He would wear a yukata, and I would wear a glorious
silk kimono printed with flying cranes and fresh-cut cherry blossoms.
-ANN IRELAND, A Certain Mr. Takahashi
Note in the above excerpt that "kimono" is not italicized along
with the other Japanese words, since this is a word that has been
fully incorporated into English.
Unambiguously foreign words should always be italicized, but
how do you treat words that are designated as foreign, yet exist as
entries in English dictionaries? The problem is, there isn't a neat
distinction between foreign-derived words that have come to be
considered standard English vocabulary, and those that haven't.
Thus, some authors would italicize words such as doppelganger,
ad hoc, ad nauseum, a priori, per se, summa cum laude, raison
d'etre, grande dame, sangfroid, chutzpah andgonif, and abbreviations
such as e.g., i.e., et al., ibid., viz. and etc. Other authors would
not. Dictionaries and style guides will differ on the treatment of
these types of words, so if you are not obligated to follow a particular
style, make your own decisions. You may do this on a word-by-word
basis, rather than resolving, say, to italicize anything in Latin. Note
that modern style is inclined to use roman (regular) type for all but
the most unusual or exotic words, on the reasoning that italics are
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