Not Washed or Cooked, # 49

Here’s an old friend:

Link: The Surrealists, ‘Recieves grace [sic] by Yves Tanguy’

So recieves appears for receives, while the punctuation needs work: a comma is needed before by. 

There’s another issue here which we’ll come back to sometime soon: when did titles stop being presented as titles and start being treated as plain phrases or sentences? (The missing comma above accentuates the issue in this case.) You don’t expect to see book conventions (generally titles italicized for long/big works, or placed in quotation marks for smaller ones) followed everywhere, but titles used to have capital letters on the key words (mainly, but not exclusively, nouns and verbs) — that’s how you know they are titles and which words are in the title. The practice seems to be dying out, even including in some books and academic publications; and (unsurprisingly) the result is that it is frequently difficult to distinguish titles from surrounding text…