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The not so humble exclamation mark

Two great articles about the growing use and abuse of punctuation in texts and emails: > Before the 1970s, few manual typewriters were equipped with an exclamation mark key. Instead, if you wanted to express your unbridled joy at – ooh, I don’t know – the budding loveliness of an early
Sep 19, 2009 1 min read
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The Appointment in Samarra by W. Somerset Maugham

There was a merchant in Bagdad who sent his servant to market to buy provisions and in a little while the servant came back, white and trembling, and said, Master, just now when I was in the marketplace I was jostled by a woman in the crowd and when I
Sep 19, 2009 1 min read
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