The dictionary is a wonderful thing, but you can't let it push you around.
Commas, like nuns, often travel in pairs.
Punctuation is a deeply conservative club. It hardly ever admits a new member.
Many survivors refuse to talk about what they went through but I've never been ashamed to have been in one of those places. The shame is not mine; the church should be ashamed. They say now they're sorry - what they mean is, sorry they were found out.
Why, if there is alphabet soup, do we not have punctuation cereal?
The English language is full of words that are just waiting to be misspelled, and the world is full of sticklers, ready to pounce.