From the world of online deals comes this marvel: the world’s smallest iPad case. That’s right, folks. This case is so small that it shrinks your iPad to the size
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Commas have power. Use them, and use them wisely.
A few years ago, Robert Samuelson lamented the declining use of the comma, suggesting that its abandonment was a metaphor for the impatience of modern life. He’s right, I think,
Continue readingThanks to the classifieds, I’ve learned to print sandwiches
Commas appear so easily and seem so innocent that it’s easy to read right past them. That’s apparently how the “All-in-one computer printer, sandwich maker” was born.
Continue readingDeath, life and the Oxford comma (or not)
Let’s talk for a few minutes about overreaction. Earlier in the week, the book industry site GalleyCat reported that the Oxford University public relations department had urged writers to
Continue readingThe weak in review: Typos, solar-powered birds and the American mind
It’s spring, and a grizzled editor’s fancy turns to thoughts of the bizarre. (If you were expecting love, try Tennyson, who looks far more grizzled than I.)
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