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Unnecessary commas

Blog reader Bill Friar got in touch with us to air one of his professional writing bugbears: ‘I would dearly love to see an item on the...

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Necessary commas?

It’s not often that punctuation makes the headlines. But the uproar over the apparent threat to the Oxford comma has proved that passion for...

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Harveys brew

A Sussex-based brewery has upset fans of punctuation with its inconsistent use of apostrophes. Apostrophe Protection Society member Jonathan Cook...

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Disk or disc?

As we’ve just established when it should be program or programme, now seems a fitting time to ask: is it disk or disc? And is this another set...

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What the sub-editor saw

Hello, I’m Cathy, and I’m a sub-editor (scourge of the newsroom, pedant and dictionary botherer). As such, my job is to spot...

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