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Mary Norris

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

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Punctuation is a deeply conservative club. It hardly ever admits a new member.

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The comma, if it's left out, sometimes can be a problem. There's a slogan on a T-shirt going around that "Let's Eat, Grandma," and "Let's Eat Grandma. "

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The English language is full of words that are just waiting to be misspelled, and the world is full of sticklers, ready to pounce.

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