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Common terms and phrasesAldus Manutius American ation brackets British called century colon and semicolon course David Crystal difference Eats editor ellipsis Elton John emails emoticon English example exclamation mark explains feel full stop Gertrude Stein grammar grammarians Guide to Punctuation H. W. Fowler Hear'Say history of punctuation hyphen ignorance indicate Inner Stickler inside the inverted inverted commas italics James Thurber joke Kerry-Anne Kingsley Amis language letters look Lord Fellamar Lynne Truss mean Meanwhile never newspaper Opal Fruits Oxford comma pause Perekladin plural possessive printed printers punc punctu punctuation marks question mark quotation marks quote reader remember rule semi semicolon sense sentence Shaw Shoots & Leaves someone spell STET story strophe style tell tence thing three dots Thurber tion tuation University Press usage William Hartston writing wrong wrote References to this bookFrom other books
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