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In Praise Of The Most Underrated Punctuation Mark In The Language

WORDS Posted: July 17, 2019 10:01 am

New Yorker Comma Queen Mary Norris welcomes a new book about the semicolon and gives a quick overview of the mark’s history (which goes back to 1494) and looks to some of the uses to which it has been put, from Melville to Chandler to Wittgenstein to Henry James to Martin Luther King, Jr. – The New Yorker

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