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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!charon.amdahl.com!pacbell.com!sgiblab!darwin.sura.net!jvnc.net!yale.edu!ira.uka.de!math.fu-berlin.de!news.netmbx.de!Germany.EU.net!mcsun!uknet!axion!pharaoh!martin
  2. From: martin@pharaoh.cyborg.bt.co.uk (Martin Gorman)
  3. Newsgroups: alt.usage.english
  4. Subject: lists
  5. Summary: lists
  6. Keywords: semi colons, commas etc
  7. Message-ID: <7171@pharaoh.cyborg.bt.co.uk>
  8. Date: 17 Nov 92 13:21:32 GMT
  9. Distribution: alt
  10. Organization: British Telecom
  11. Lines: 10
  12.  
  13. What's the correct way to construct a list in English. I use a colon and
  14. semi-colons, like this:
  15.  
  16. item number 1;
  17. item number 2;
  18. item number n;
  19. last item.
  20.  
  21. Several methods different from this have been suggested to me as the
  22. "real" way to do it.
  23.