Archive for Punctuation
Many years ago, I read and enjoyed Richard S. Grant’s 1987 novel Rumors of Spring. But it had one flaw that lessened my enjoyment: the typeface that it was printed in. (At least in the mass-market paperback edition; I don’t know about other editions.) The letters of the typeface were fairly attractive. But the punctuation […]
A couple of days ago, I wrote about abbreviations containing slashes; researching that reminded me to mention that there are a couple of different names for slashes, and a couple...
The following sentence contains a comma after every word: Ahead, Edmund, inevitably, lurked. I'm not saying it's a good sentence, but I believe it to be grammatical. So what's the...
Back in March, I came across this AP headline: More than math, reading important I read it as saying that reading was more important than math, but the article is...
From an article about rescued Chinese miners: But today rescuers hailed a miracle as they pulled more than 100 miners to safety after eight days trapped underground. They had survived...
As reported by Womzilla, via Supergee on the cranky_editors LiveJournal community: Several groups trying to re-ignite New England's faith are theologically conservative, such as the Southern Baptists [and others]. They...
Every year around this time, a question of the utmost importance occurs to me. I refer, of course, to the question of whether this holiday honors mothers or a mother—that...