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Mary Norris, Between You  Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen Quotes: So many things in language can never be known or settled or explained, except by custom.
         

So many things in language can never be known or settled or explained, except by custom.


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So many things in language can never be known or settled or explained, except by custom.
         



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Those extra letters dangling at the ends of words are the genitalia of grammar.



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Nobody knows everything—one of the pleasures of language is that there is always something new to learn—and everybody makes mistakes.



Was it an insult to be called a “woman writer”? Didn’t it have a taint of, say, the “woman driver”?

Was it an insult to be called a “woman writer”? Didn’t it have a taint of, say, the “woman driver”?



The better the writer, the more complicated the dangler.

The better the writer, the more complicated the dangler.





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