Word: commas
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Wiser readers, imperturbed, found a more satisfactory explanation of the unpleasant likeness between photographed dog and alleged master. They surmised (rightly) that a dull Herald Tribune copyreader or proofreader had clumsily elevated a comma after the word Hughes so that it indicated a possessive instead of an appositional phrase. Further they surmised (rightly) that Miss Charles, alert owner of the prize-winning Schnauzer, had given him a name which his appearance richly merited...
...What a real warmth it has" concluded Plimpkin as he added a comma to the erratum of Jones and a great, fat semi-colon to the marginal notes of Thwait. They smiled at each other benignly. The lovely lady was watching the fire, watching the flame which always was reaching, trying...
...report of the committee of the Imperial Conference on in ter-imperial relations is a masterpiece of evasion. It has recom mended the elimination of five words and the insertion of one comma in the royal title (TIME, Nov. 29), and it advises a few changes of formalities and formulae. But it has avoided with the greatest skill every real problem that arises...
...literary criticism, whose "Two figures of Earth" in a recent number of the Yale Review is stimulating in the vastness of its concept, in the directness of its approach. He spends classroom hours expounding the benefits to be derived from an accurate appreciation of Gray's use of he comma. The third class embraces such men as Bliss Perry, formerly editor of the "Atlantic", who in his fear of being less the scholar for being more the teacher does a forensic tightrope act between vitality and the verbal norm. None of these three classes apparently dares give to the undergraduate...
...Indeed, as a breeder of litigation, commas may be compared to the countless wigglers that in our youth we watched coming up to breathe in the family rainbarrel. To carry the simile one step further, it [the comma] should be abolished...