Word: manutius
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...jokey style. But her book teems with amusing and appalling examples of mangled punctuation (starting with her title, which comes from a gag about a zoology entry on the panda), offers a lot of clear and helpful advice, and takes delightful detours into history. Example: her paean to Aldus Manutius the Elder, the 15th century Venetian printer who invented italics and first used the semicolon and whose babies, says Truss, she wishes she could have...
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