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Friday, May 10, 2019

Daily Dose


From Between You & Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen, by Mary Norris

SOLECISM

"('Solecism' is a fancy word for mistake; it refers especially to mistakes in usage that betray the user's pomposity and ignorance.)"

From Chapter 4, Between You and Me