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Apostrophe History Lesson That Won’t Put You to Sleep

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Cereal, Comma, and Robert Duvall

Not that kind of cereal, but the serial comma. A great example (via Making Light) of what can happen when you drop the serial comma from a sentence: For those who don’t like to squint at small print, the newspaper … Continue reading

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To Boldly Split Infinitives Where No One Has Split Them Before?

Salon today reviews Jack Lynch’s new book, The Lexicographer’s Dilemma (2009), an evolutionary history of proper grammar. So is Lynch, in writing his history, sympathetic to the describers (the camp of linguists) or the prescribers (the camp of traditional grammarians)? Should we, … Continue reading

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Quote of the Day II

Alan Jacobs, of The New Atlantis , puts in a good word for writing well, and writing teachers: Again and again in my career I have seen that people who can write well — in almost any field — give … Continue reading

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