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Those extra letters dangling at the ends of words are the genitalia of grammar.Mary Norris
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If commas are open to interpretation, hyphens are downright Delphic.Mary Norris
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You cannot legislate language. Prohibition never worked, right? Not for booze and not for sex and not for words.Mary Norris
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Nobody knows everything–one of the pleasures of language is that there is always something new to learn–and everybody makes mistakes.Mary Norris
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So many things in language can never be known or settled or explained, except by custom.Mary Norris
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Was it an insult to be called a “woman writer”? Didn’t it have a taint of, say, the “woman driver”?Mary Norris
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The better the writer, the more complicated the dangler.Mary Norris