Between You & Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen

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“Hilarious…This book charmed my socks off.” —Patricia O’Conner, New York Times Book Review

Mary Norris has spent more than three decades working in The New Yorker’s renowned copy department, helping to maintain its celebrated high standards. In Between You & Me, she brings her vast experience with grammar and usage, her good cheer and irreverence, and her finely sharpened pencils to help the rest of us in a boisterous language book as full of life as it is of practical advice.

Named a Best Book of the Year by NPR, Amazon, Wall Street Journal, Publishers Weekly, Kirkus, and Library Journal.

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Ursprunglig publicering: 2015
Utgivningsår: 2015

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Gloria De la Cruzhar citeratför 2 år sedan
Also on her desk was a canister, with a perforated lid, about the size of a shaker for red-pepper flakes in a pizzeria, wrapped in brown paper, on which she had drawn commas and the words “Comma Shaker.” This was Lu’s comment on The New Yorker’s “close” style of punctuation: she thought we used too many commas.
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Gloria De la Cruzhar citeratför 2 år sedan
He had known Kerouac and Ginsberg at Columbia, and after a drink or two he would start saying things like “Dig it, man.”
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Gloria De la Cruzhar citeratför 2 år sedan
But a modern Anglican version, dating from 1988, makes it simply “Our Father in heaven,” which is restrictive: our heavenly father, not our earthly one.
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