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Lapsing into a commaWalsh, Bill

Lapsing into a comma

2000246 pages
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"Whether you're editing your own writing or someone else's, you will find Lapsing Into a Comma an invaluable and entertaining resource. Part commentary, part stylebook, it addresses not only the usual usage topics (split infinitives, that vs. which and a historic vs. an historic) but also some issues too new or obscure to be found in the traditional manuals (e-mail vs. email, how to tell a playmate from a Playboy Bunny and why a right hook is a bad example of a punch). In an opinionated, humorous and, yes, curmudgeonly way, Bill Walsh of the Washington Post strikes an often unpredictable…

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  • Other · English · 2000
    Contemporary Books · 246 pages · 9780809225354
StyleHandbooks, manualsStyle manualsEnglish languageAuthorshipEditingEnglish language, style