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Making a Point: The Persnickety Story of English Punctuation
By Crystal, David
- ISBN
- 9781250060419 9781466865648
- Publisher
- St. Martin's
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Reviewed on October 1, 2015 | Social Sciences
In this highly detailed account of the rise of English punctuation, Crystal (How Language Works; Shakespeare's Words) examines the historical origins of punctuation and the evolution of writing from the ancients to the Internet. Beginning with the absence of punctuation in early Latin and Anglo-Saxon writing and covering the oratory tradition, with its reliance on context ra...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
