Specifically list `e.g.,` and `i.e.,` in the grammar section

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Closed domfarolino closed 4 months ago

domfarolino commented 4 months ago

See:

https://english.stackexchange.com/a/241108/157224: for American english preferring e.g.,
For preferring i.e., over i.e., that is just a matter of preference. The HTML Standard has 81 occurrences of i.e., compared to 49 instances of i.e.
https://github.com/whatwg/html/pull/10392#discussion_r1626822741
https://github.com/whatwg/html/pull/10392#discussion_r1626825552

domfarolino commented 4 months ago

CC'ing @domenic since I cannot formally request a review.

domfarolino commented 4 months ago

This seems okay. I might call out explicitly they are to be followed by a comma.

Done-ish.