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Comma is too close to “coma” anyways, and those are never fun.
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His review, Bad Comma, is largely a rant about the punctuation errors he found.
Obligatory "Eats, Shoots & Leaves" comment Ray Girvan 2004
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His review, Bad Comma, is largely a rant about the punctuation errors he found.
Archive 2004-07-01 Ray Girvan 2004
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Because of a book about punctuation called Comma Sense: A FUN-damental Guide to Punctuation (get it? get it? wonder why book publishing is in a crisis?) that I co-authored with extremely famous grammarian guy Richard Lederer (author of the hilarious and bestselling Anguished English series), I sometimes get e-mails from people pondering perplexing punctuational problems.
John Shore: When Punctuation Goes Terribly, Terribly Wrong 2010
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Because of a book about punctuation called Comma Sense: A FUN-damental Guide to Punctuation (get it? get it? wonder why book publishing is in a crisis?) that I co-authored with extremely famous grammarian guy Richard Lederer (author of the hilarious and bestselling Anguished English series), I sometimes get e-mails from people pondering perplexing punctuational problems.
John Shore: When Punctuation Goes Terribly, Terribly Wrong 2010
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Because of a book about punctuation called Comma Sense: A FUN-damental Guide to Punctuation (get it? get it? wonder why book publishing is in a crisis?) that I co-authored with extremely famous grammarian guy Richard Lederer (author of the hilarious and bestselling Anguished English series), I sometimes get e-mails from people pondering perplexing punctuational problems.
John Shore: When Punctuation Goes Terribly, Terribly Wrong 2010
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The Comma is the shortest pause; as, Jane goes to school ', and learns to read.
Sanders' Union Fourth Reader Charles W. Sanders
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Intervals, which are called Comma's, five of which constitute the
Opinioni de' cantori antichi e moderni. English Pier Francesco Tosi 1692
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This time the miscreant was impugning my character with regards to his scurrilous behavior in the "Comma" caper.
LOBO Throws Down the Gauntlet (and breaks his toe) Don Lewis 2008
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Your choice will be the appropriate type of what’s known as a Comma Separated Value, a rather generic file type that can be imported to different programs including Excel.
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"Polygonia (from Greek πολύς - polys, "many"] and γωνία - gōnia, "angle") is a genus of butterflies with a conspicuous white mark on the underside of each hindwing, hence the common name Comma."
--Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Polygonia&oldid=469166042)
February 2, 2012