Between You & Me: Confessions of a Comma QueenNew York Times Bestseller
Mary Norris has spent more than three decades working in The New Yorker’s renowned copy department, helping to maintain its celebrated high standards. In Between You & Me, she brings her vast experience with grammar and usage, her good cheer and irreverence, and her finely sharpened pencils to help the rest of us in a boisterous language book as full of life as it is of practical advice. |
Contents
Spelling Is for Weirdos | |
That Witch | |
The Problem of Heesh | |
Comma Comma Comma Comma Chameleon | |
Who Put the Hyphen in MobyDick? | |
A Dash a Semicolon and a Colon Walk into a | |
Whats Up with the Apostrophe? | |
The MillionDollar Copy Editor | |
Some Books I Have Found Particularly Helpful | |
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