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“ You cannot legislate language. Prohibition never worked, right? Not for booze and not for sex and not for words. ”

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Those extra letters dangling at the ends of words are the genitalia of grammar.

~ Mary Norris

If commas are open to interpretation, hyphens are downright Delphic.

~ Mary Norris

Nobody knows everything—one of the pleasures of language is that there is always something new to learn—and everybody makes mistakes.

~ Mary Norris

So many things in language can never be known or settled or explained, except by custom.

~ Mary Norris