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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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Shatner commas: Oddly placed commas that don’t seem to serve any actual purpose in punctuation, but make it look like you should take odd pauses, as William Shatner does when delivering lines. – Author unknown

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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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Mr Speaker, I said the honourable Member was a liar it is true and I am sorry for it. The honourable Member may place the punctuation where he pleases. – Attributed to Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751–1816), responding to a rebuk

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