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“Correct” spelling, indeed, is one of the arts that are far more esteemed by schoolma’ams than by practical men, neck-deep in the heat and agony of the world. – H.L. Mencken, The American Language, SupplementII: An Inquiry into the Developme

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There are people who embrace the Oxford comma and people who don’t, and I’ll just say this: never get between these people when drink has been taken. – Lynne Truss, Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation

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From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put. – Sir Winston Churchill

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A kiss can be a comma, a question mark or an exclamation point. That’s basic spelling that every woman ought to know. – Mistinguett, quoted in Theatre Arts, Volume39, Issue12, 1955

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A semicomma, we should note, doesn’t exist; we just made the word up. But it sounds like a punctuation mark that should exist, doesn’t it? – Richard Lederer and John Shore, Comma Sense: A Fun-damental Guide to Punctuation

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