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2018-10-16 00:41:48| PortlandOnline
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04.22: Between You and Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen
2015-03-18 19:04:47| Powells Books Events Calendar
Mary Norris has spent more than three decades in The New Yorker's copy department, maintaining its celebrated high standards. Now she brings her vast experience, good cheer, and finely sharpened pencils to help the rest of us in a boisterous language book as full of life as it is of practical advice. Between You and Me (W. W. Norton) features Norris's laugh-out-loud descriptions of some of the most common and vexing problems in spelling, punctuation, and usage. Readers and writers will find in Norris neither a scold nor a softie, but a wise and witty new friend in love with language and alive to the glories of its use in America, even in the age of autocorrect and spell check.
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Every comma scrutinized as UN climate report balances science and politics
2014-04-12 11:55:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: After racing against the clock in an all-night session, the U.N.'s expert panel on climate change was putting the final touches Saturday on a scientific guide to help governments, industries and regular people take action to stop global warming from reaching dangerous levels. As always when the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change adopts one of its high-profile reports, the week-long talks in Berlin were slowed by wrangling between scientists and governments over which words, charts and tables...
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Did the 2nd Circuit wrongly interpret a comma? Expert takes aim at 'arbitrary principle'
2013-10-09 14:57:40| Footwear - Topix.net
A federal appeals court has been "bamboozled by a comma," according to a new critique by the author of a book on contract drafting.
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