Apr 4, 2019
More from our favorite copy editor, Marry Norris, Greek to Me: Adventures of a Comma Queen, out now from Norton. (We have a limited number of signed copies in stock.)
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More from our favorite copy editor, Marry Norris, Greek to Me: Adventures of a Comma Queen, out now from Norton. (We have a limited number of signed copies in stock.)
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Move over, Charles Dickens! From the staff of the New Yorker and the Comma Queen herself, here’s a special lesson for a well-edited holiday season.
Does civilization depend on the proper use of “who” and “whom”?
The Archives of an Unfulfilled Genius
The Archives of an Unfulfilled Genius
For a change of pace, I opened a box that Vicki had labelled “Edward’s Notebooks on World Literature.” Ed’s reading program was prodigious. I knew that he was working his way systematically through the Western canon, but I could not appreciate the scope of the project or of Ed’s perseverance until I saw it for myself. I pulled notebooks out of the bins ten at a time and examined them. The first…
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Anyone else ever feel like you’re a Comma Queen?
I write a sentence or paragraph, using commas the way I was taught in school. I think “you’ve really chopped that sentence up.” So I go back and remove the commas, only to put them back in because now the sentence runs on.
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Forget the last post; this is the real deal
Forget the last post; this is the real deal
Two days ago I wrote a post about Mary Norris, The New Yorker‘s “Comma Queen” and her review of three new grammar books with very different approaches. Unfortunately, the link was incorrect. The link below should take you to her brief article. I think you’ll enjoy it. She’s quite witty.
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/comma-queen/the-long-hot-summer-of-grammar
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Copy editor Mary Norris shares her enchantment with the Greek language.
Greek to Me: Adventures of the Comma Queen by Mary Norris https://amzn.to/2I7EQxx