A bearded man walking the streets deeply engrossed in reading a book. Etching by J.T. Smith, 1815. (Courtesy of the Wellcome Collection) The rules that govern English usage have never been ...
When Lynne Truss wrote, in her best-selling 2003 grammar screed Eats, Shoots & Leaves, of “a world of plummeting punctuation standards,” she was (perhaps unwittingly) joining an ancient tradition. How ...
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