Beagle - 3:10 pm on Apr 5, 2006 (gmt 0)

Wait, is that 21st Century, 21st Century, 21st century, twenty-first century, twentyfirst-century or perhaps 21st C?

And did it start on 1 January 2000 or 1 January 2001? Or would that be January 1, 2001; 1 Jan 2001; 01/01/2001...?

FWIW, at my day job the quoted question would end "...twentyfirst-century, or perhaps 21st C?" Scientific journals love that Oxford comma! OTOH, I've tried slipping through "...twentyfirst-century or, perhaps, 21st C?" but it got stopped for being "too pretentious." 8-) Or is that 'too pretentious'? On my personal website, I get wild and crazy and ditch the Oxford comma - such freedom!

It's news to me, too, that cascading style sheets take care of that kind of style. What a world we live in. ;-)

ETA: But, see, now I feel like a hand coder in a conversation with some FP users. We each have our own areas of expertise. I have to either build a very basic website or have someone else build it for me, because I'm not a coding expert. OTOH, one of my smaller, very basic websites is about grammar. The doctors I work for on my day job aren't grammar and spelling experts; that's why they pay me (just as I'd have to hire someone to build a more complex website). Knowing when to use MSH2 and when to use MSH2 makes a whole lotta difference when you're talking about genetics.