On 06/29/2016 04:18 AM, Jim Wilkins wrote:
Hey Ed, is the semicolon after "truck" legitimate?

http://www.tameri.com/edit/punctuation.html

I once had a journalism instructor who wrote his own style book,
available at the college book store. It started off with "This book was
written to assist the student learn... " He apparently wasn't satisfied
with "help", and had to go with something more impressive from his word
processor's list of suggestions. Idiot.