Jonathan Nash

This was terrifyingly hard not to do. It was drummed into me that jargon or slang must be enclosed in quotes, because it was incorrect English.

Also, a lot of the books I read (school stories for example) do exactly that, and we all know how influential the media is on impressionable minds, eh, chums?

Except it looks horrible, is scholarly-pompous and slows you down as a reader.

I was certainly strongly aware I was doing it (witness the joke on AP43's disk pages) but couldn't break the habit until almost a year later, when I sat down to write something and found I no longer wished to use a device redundant since 1941.

Phew.

And anyway, it was never quite as annoying as desperately overusing capital letters.