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My Latinist father and I always disagreed about language. Then I got old

Copy editors have lives outside of punctuation—but also, I love commas

The Canadian Oxford can be a writer’s best friend—if they understand its limitations

The web may be a pedant’s paradise, but there are good reasons to keep your asterisks to yourself