who’s trying to replace a familiar word with a foreign accent mark?
MORE BOOLSCHIDT “NEW USAGE” in writing! In several articles in what appears to be American English, I found writers had added a tilde (~) before an amount of money. For example, a sentence might read, “The cost of buying original copies of all six psychedelic albums by the Strawberry Watch Pipers in near-mint condition is ~$4,000.” [Read more] “who’s trying to replace a familiar word with a foreign accent mark?”