Punctuation hanging out

Language Log 2025-04-08

Summary:

Reprinting an xkcd from last fall: Mouseover title: "The distinctive 'UCLA comma' and 'Michigan comma' are a long string of commas at the start and end of the sentence respectively." Note from that post: I guess Penn, Brown, Berkeley, CalTech, …, should be grateful for being left out. I'll spare you our past posts on […]

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Tags:

orthography

Authors:

Mark Liberman

Date tagged:

04/08/2025, 09:13

Date published:

04/08/2025, 06:12