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Re: And now for something completely different

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• Subject: [mg120506] Re: And now for something completely different
• From: Brett Champion <brettc at wolfram.com>
• Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2011 07:08:19 -0400 (EDT)
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On Jul 25, 2011, at 6:29 AM, Richard Fateman wrote:

>
> Can you start a paragraph with "And"?
>
> http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid090413160418AAyfRO2
>
> says, 'No.'
>
>
> Stephen Wolfram often does so, and I find it annoying.
> example
> http://www.wolframscience.com/nksonline/page-42?firstview=1
>

http://www.wolframscience.com/nksonline/page-849c-text?firstview=1

Other links, which show up above Yahoo! Answers in a Google search:

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Can_you_start_a_sentence_with_the_word_And
=
http://www.dailywritingtips.com/can-you-start-sentences-with-=93and=94-and=
-=93but=94/
http://www.gpuss.co.uk/english_usage/start_sentence_conjunction.htm

Brett=

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  • And now for something completely different
    • From: Richard Fateman <fateman@cs.berkeley.edu>