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A semicomma, we should note, doesn't exist; we just made the word

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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