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I don't think-"
"Clearly. Why start now?
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The other day I was playing Scrabble. I saw that I could close the space in D-E- -Y. I had an N and an F. Which do you think I chose? What was the word I made?
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The dash helps to indicate that the two thoughts are intimately related, and it's less stodgy than a semicolon, which would have performed the same function (and who talks in semicolons?).
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It's a four-letter word for a part of the human anatomy but it's not m-i-n-d.
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The hyphenated American is ridiculous. But that's what we have to put up with. I think that any person that's in the United States is better off here than they would be where they came from.
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H is for Hardware store: I'd rather go to the hardware store than the opera. And I like the opera.
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What's important with writing is that it comes from a place you absolutely love. I'm writing for film and TV. In America, they call people like me 'multi-hyphenators.'
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The 'Weston' is actually my middle name. I hyphenated it because I really wasn't willing to go out in the acting world as 'Tom Jones,' 'cause I'm Welsh as well, so the connotation is just ridiculous.
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Writing's in the nouns.
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[H]is mouth pursed, but pursed in American, more generous than English pursing, ready for broader vowels and less mincing sounds. His body was long and lean and trim; he had American hips, ready for a neat belt and the faraway ghost of a gunbelt.
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'Y' is about the weakest letter of all. 'Y' can't make up its mind if it's a vowel or a consonant, can it?
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Always avoid alliteration.
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Anyone who can only think of one way to spell a word obviously lacks imagination.
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Add one little bit on the end ... Think of 'potato,' how's it spelled? You're right phonetically, but what else ... ? There ya go ... alright!
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A chrysanthemum by any other name would be easier to spell.
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Dominic spelled it.
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Trying to straighten the question mark!
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Use the smallest word that does the job.
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Ducking autocorrect!
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In our time, Universalism as such, like a spinster lady late in life, took a husband, and although they agreed to hyphenate their married name, by now the offspring of that union often simply call themselves by the husband's name, and in time may not recognize her name at all.
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That happens sometimes, right? It's
on the tip of your tongue, but you just can't think of it.
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Why is abbreviation such a long word?
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Don't put a question mark where God already put a period.
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All that remains is for a few dots and commas to be crossed.
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In the places I go there are things that I see that I never could spell if I stopped with the Z.
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How come abbreviated is such a long word?
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STORY" is more than half of the word "HISTORY". And that's no accident.
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I wish my name started with a comma. That would be so dramatic.
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These words have been sanitized for your protection. An adjective and a noun, respectively.
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In 1962, a typo by a NASA programmer resulted in Mariner 1 being sent into the ocean rather than its intended destination, Venus. The cause was a missed hyphen.
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I wrote it three times - with a Thesaurus.
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It (the dash ) is a comfortable punctuation mark since even the most rigorous critic can seldom claim that any particular example of it is a misuse. Its overuse is its greatest danger, and the writer who can't resist dashes may be suspected of uncoordinated thinking.
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A life well-lived or a life lived well? The placement of words really does change the connotation.
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In my life, water has had the character of punctuation.
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Apparently, using two spaces after a period has become anachronistic. But tell that to my right thumb. -
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This chapter is dedicated to those other delights of punctuation--exquisite little squiggles, those most delightful dots and dashes, and other tragically under-appreciated tiny tidbits!

Nah. I'm just yankin' your chain.
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All that shit starts in E.
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Life's a wheel of fortune and y'all can't buy a vowel.
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I would like a cappuccino," says Linus politely. "Thank you."
"Your name?"
"I'll spell it for you," he says. "Z-W-P-A-E-N
"
"What?" She stares at him, Sharpie in hand.
"Wait, I haven't finished. Double F-hyphen-T-J-U-S. It's an unusual name, Linus adds gravely. "It's Dutch.
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E-I-E-I-O is actually a gross misspelling of the word farm.
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Hyacinth. Please forgive me.
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When you're undead, the emphasis is on the second syllable.
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Write one good clean sentence and put a period at the end of it. Then write another one.
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Punctuation lets your writing breathe...
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Seems indecisive, doesn't it? Either be a period or be a comma, but make up your mind.
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Semicolon, you dolt!
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Never place a period where God's placed a comma.
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[Charles] Reznikoff was in between faiths, in between worlds ... a double, hyphenated American. I think it probably goes deeper than that.
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J, n. A consonant in English, but some nations use it as a vowel ... from a Latin verb, "jacere", "to throw," because when a stone is thrown at a dog the dog's tail assumes that shape.
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Melville died in New York on September 28, 1891, blissfully unaware that, in the years to come, so many people would leave the hyphen out of Moby-Dick.
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Punctuation was, it is sad to say, invented a very long time ago. Even more frustrating, it has remained with us ever since.
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Never place a period where God has placed a comma.
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Procrastination is the longest word in the language, but there's only one letter between its ends when they occupy their proper places in the alphabet.
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Punctuation is the pragmatics of written language.
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Comamandering is not a word.
It has letters, doesn't it? Sounds like a word to me.
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Those extra letters dangling at the ends of words are the genitalia of grammar.
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Never use a long word where a short one will do.
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Except when it didn't, as in the case of names that already end in an s, such as Jones' book (a practice that is now out of style).
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Any word with the our ending could be spelt or, don'tchaknow." "Like neighbor instead of neighbour?" "It's a good idea," put in Snell. "Labor, valor, flavor, harbor - there must be hundreds. If we confine it to one geographical area, we can claim it as a local spelling idiosyncrasy.
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And every word has at most one inflectional suffix. We never get opensed or opensing, nor do the plural -s and possessive s stack up when several owners own something: the dogs' blanket, not the dogs's (dogzez) blanket. Finally,
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Bad spellers of the world untie!
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Before you use a fancy word, make room for it.
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Just another four-letter word.
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As long as they were talking, it was easy. And Levi was always talking.
He told her about 4-H.
"What do the H's stand for?"
"Head, heart, hands, health. They don't have 4-H in South Omaha?"
"They do, but it stands for hard, hip-hop, and Homey-don't-play-that.
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If you write science fiction you can spell things the way you like, sometimes.
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His body forced itself into a comma as a result of the trauma. The
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I'm a big believer in random capitalization. The rules of capitalization are so unfair to the words in the middle. (32)
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If it is possible to cut a word out, always cut it out
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Punctuation is a courtesy designed to help readers to understand a story without stumbling.
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Take what the British call the "greengrocer's apostrophe," named for aberrant signs advertising cauliflower's or carrot's in local fruit and vegetable shops.
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Company names without clear pronunciation or spelling won't last.
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Off, end this lies it's not awesome. Please take this crap, second very clever and smart, but I want to add suffix (-ass), it's very suitable, isn't it?
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There must be a mistake," I said.
He adjusted his bag on his shoulder. "That's a creative name. What do you shorten it to? Missy?
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WORK is a four-lettered word, that ends with a "K
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Use the right word, not its second cousin.
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The gh at the end of many modern words, however, like dough, cough, and trough, is actually an artifact not of Dutch orthographic tendencies, but of Norman distaste for the Middle English letter yogh, which looked like this: 3. Yogh fell out of use around the end of the fifteenth century.
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Some syllables are swords.
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Is that a space?
No, it's a hydrant.
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I'd rather be a comma than a full stop.
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American means white, and Africanist people struggle to make the term applicable to themselves with ethnicity and hyphen after hyphen after hyphen.
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I'm a fan of some of the hyphy stuff. Hyphy has been going on a lot longer than the press has been recognizing it.
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I began in an era where four-letter words were not allowed.
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That's so when I forget how to spell my name, I can still find my (expletive) clothes.
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How do you spell 'contravention'?" said Carrot, turning over a page.
"I don't," said Nobby, pushing through the crowds.
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Would-a Could-a Should-a Never Did-a
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That's Right Hunny-B
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The only stupid thing about words is the spelling of them.
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The word abbreviation sure is long for what it means.
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Remember, "I" before "E", except in Budweiser.
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The umlaut isn't on my birth certificate. I had this book as a child called Chloe and Maude, and there was an umlaut on the e, and I said, I want that! It's a little flair. Just to confuse people even more.
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With this magazine, you could change the 'H' to 'G', it may be funnier and better for sales.
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Eliminate the superfluous.
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Erratum. In my article on the Price of Milk, 'Horses' should have read 'Cows' throughout.
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Why use a 10 letter word you can barely pronounce ... when a four letter one will do.
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I would die at the stake rather than change a semi-colon!
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diphthongs. Avril
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A 'T' for Tess, a 'T' for Toby.
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I before e, Except after c, Or when sounded as a, As in neighbor or weigh.
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I think initially we wanted to use the first letter of the character's name. We thought S was perfect.
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Another words, a