The rules of punctuation seem arbitrary. How can they not, when an apostrophe looks like nothing in this world so much as a comma that can’t keep its feet on the ground? Or when, by simply placing next to that wafting comma its twin, one creates (of all things) a quotation mark? – Richard Lederer and John Shore, Comma Sense: A Fun-damental Guide to Punctuation
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[A] man must be a d—d fool, who can’t spell a word more than one way. – Author unknown, 1855, anecdote from Jamestown Journal (Thanks, Garson O’To
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