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

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.

That pesky comma

This book is dedicated to my parents, Ayn Rand and God