The first three items are excerpted and amended from the original at canongate. The fourth item is from my own blog.
THE FATAL COMMACzarina Maria Fyodorovna once saved the life of a man by transposing a single comma in a warrant signed by her husband, Alexander III. On the bottom of the warrant the czar [...]
Life is good. Yes, grammar has struck a blow for itself. Rogers Communications is expected to lose $2,130,000 because of a misplaced comma in a contract. Yes, the world’s most expensive comma.
I always espouse good grammar and ridicule people who screw it up (normal typos excused). However this is what we call ‘priceless’ — and [...]
So, I was at Eric “Ptomaine” Hedlund’s blog earlier today. I go there now and again, despite the fact he posts in spurts and then doesn’t post for over a year. If he posted regularly, you can be sure he’d be in the blog link section on your right. You may remember Eric from several [...]
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