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You know you’re a language nerd when you have a strong opinion about serial commas. – Author unknown

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The great logical, or grammatical, framework of language, (for grammar is the logic of speech, even as logic is the grammar of reason,) he would possess, he knew not how… – Richard Chenevix Trench, “On the Study of Words,” lecture to the pupils of the D

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A double negative is a no-no. – Author unknown

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