‘Stopping to rethread the needle twice before she got to the end, she got up and stood at the ironing board to press the skirt with a warm iron ready for collection.’
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Gert is grouchy
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No names, no pack drill as they used to say in the army, but Gert was shocked to her bootstraps to read sentences like this in a book that has received some praise:
Titivullus, a hell of a spellchecker
Boredom – so fun? Even funner!
Nietzsche Boredom is the windless calm of the soul
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Have the proof-reader shot
Some nice Twainisms in David Crystal’s Guardian article about his new book Making a Point: the pernickety story of English punctuation.
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That pesky comma
This book is dedicated to my parents, Ayn Rand and God
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