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Anonymous Posted 17 years ago
Grammar

Movie titles

underline/Italicize [computer of course], or quotes????
  

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Whatever you like the best. It's a matter of style.

  • Whatever you like the best.
  • It's a matter of style.
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Whatever you like the best. It's a matter of style.
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Old fashioned, but it works for me:

Quotes for titles of short stories, movies, plays, TV shows, songs, poems and articles in magazines;

Italics (or underlining --- really old-fashioned) for books, magazines, dictionaries, encyclopedias and newspapers.

If I've left anything out, a handy rule of thumb: if it is a self-contained publication, use italics; if it is a part
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Either italics or quotes seem fine to me. The idea of underlining a movie title seems very strange to me, but I seem to remember from last time a similar question was asked that it's viewed as acceptable by some. Perhaps it's an AmE/BrE difference, or perhaps I'm misremembering what was said.
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There is some variation; the Times and the Oxford University Press set film titles in italic.

Some might use underlining where italics aren't available, e.g. in handwritten texts.

MrP

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