I read The Straits Times every day.

I like one rule that says to italicize the titles of magazines, books, newspapers, academic journals, films, television shows, long poems, plays, operas, musical albums, works of art, websites. It depends on the style of writing.

I read The Straits Times every day.

Thanks, Punkey.

If we use a smartphone to type, there is no italics provided. So I assume that quote marks would be the solution.

Whether to use italics, quotes etc for the name of a publication is a style requirement. Style requirements are issued by publishers, academic institutions, etc, in 'style guides'. Material typed on a smartphone would surely not be destined directly for publication, and therefore it doesn't matter.

Me too, though I use italics in other ways as well. Where that rule comes from or whether people just started doing that, I have no idea. I first noticed it in the What Books Are You Reading thread on A2K, and liked the usage.

My favorite writing overall is the style of editing/usage that New Yorker Magazine uses, but as far as I know, there is no publication available describing their present day preferences. The old book, Elements of Style, by Strunk and White is likely passe by now. At this point, I write as I like, well or poorly or somewhere in between.

A rule long on the way out...

Thanks to all of you.

Sez who?

I like it in internet writing sometimes, for example, as an easy way to distinguish book titles so I can find the titles among all the discussions in a book thread, thus to list books I may want to read. I find italics less jarring than bolding, but I use bolding for some things too.

Each to his or her own.


I realize that this thread is meant for British english usage learners - sorry, I got carried away, Tanguatlay.

Well Oss I guess it depends on what sort of journ it is you're reading as eg, newspapers apparently don't use italics


http://data.grammarbook.com/blog/quotation-marks/titles-of-books-plays-articles-etc-underline-italicize-use-quotation-marks/

...at least here

I can write about Hard Times by Charles Dickens without (much) danger of anyone failing to realise what I am doing.

Yea Con some of us are fussbudgets abut that kinda stuff

She doesn't mind italicizing titles of books.

I stopped subscribing to newspapers a long time ago. I used to subscribe to NYTimes, Los Angeles Times, and Washington Post at the same time back in the good old days. What with the paywalls, I barely look at them now. I read the Guardian, and a variety of other non paywall internet news very off and on.

Actually, some of the hard core old a2kers first met as New York Times readers, through their website called Abuzz, which went cattywampus with trolls at a later point. That is part of the process re A2K getting started by Robert. I was in on that early Abuzz thing, but not for very long, since I had some big blotches of time having computer trouble (too dumb to catch on to advice given, something about cookies). By that time, I was buying NYT at Starbucks a few times a week in the mornings on the way to work.

The only reason I went there, as I'm not a Starbucks fan, is that they did sell the Times, one of the few places in the whole town that did.

An 80 something old codger who thinks he can lecture us all on modernity.

I erred re my news reading - I read the Guardian every day (Observer on Sunday), it's the other online papers, such as Seattle PI or Denver Post or Corriera della Sera and lots more that I read once in a while.

Osso what a prodigious reader

Incidentally where italics not available, in. caps used a lot