Not my mom. My first boss. SHe taught me more about editing than I can count, but for those three (of which I recall two) usages, I think she was trying to maintain standards in a very specific, very technical field (we were working with abstracts from IEEE journals and conference proceedings).
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Date: 2011-07-15 12:59 pm (UTC)