style such as the use of capitals,
italics, punctuation and footnotes,
the correct placing of quotation
marks, and of course spelling.
(Although I am myself an
instinctive good speller, it is
surprising how many writers are
hopeless ones.) In the case of
cookery books recipes are scanned
for inconsistencies and such
aberrations as ingredients which
appear in the directions for
cooking the dish but have been
forgotten by the author in his
initial list of requirements for it –
or in reverse, ingredients left, as it
were, hanging in the air without
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