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245 10 a| Between you & me :b| confessions of a Comma Queen /c| Mary Norris.;

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264 1 a| New York :b| W.W. Norton & Company,c| [2015];

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504 a| Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-212) and index.;

505 0 a| Confessions of a Comma Queen -- Spelling is for weirdos -- That witch! -- The problem of Heesh -- Between you and me -- Comma comma comma comma, chameleon -- Who put the hyphen in Moby-Dick? -- A dash, a semicolon, and a colon walk into a bar -- What's up with the apostrophe? -- F*ck this sh*t -- Ballad of a pencil junkie -- The million-dollar copy editor -- Some books I have found particularly helpful.;

520 a| Mary Norris has spent more than three decades in The New Yorker's copy department, maintaining its celebrated high standards. Now she brings her vast experience, good cheer, and finely sharpened pencils to help the rest of us in a boisterous language book as full of life as it is of practical advice. Between You & Me features Norris's laugh-out-loud descriptions of some of the most common and vexing problems in spelling, punctuation, and usage comma faults, danglers, 'who' vs. 'whom, ' 'that' vs. 'which, ' compound words, gender-neutral language and her clear explanations of how to handle them. She draws on examples from Charles Dickens, Emily Dickinson, Henry James, and the Lord's Prayer, as well as from The Honeymooners, The Simpsons, David Foster Wallace, and Gillian Flynn. She takes us to see a copy of Noah Webster's groundbreaking Blue-Back Speller, on a quest to find out who put the hyphen in Moby-Dick, on a pilgrimage to the world's only pencil-sharpener museum, and inside the hallowed halls of The New Yorker and her work with such celebrated writers as Pauline Kael, Philip Roth, and George Saunders. "--Jacket.;

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Between you & me : confessions of a Comma Queen / Mary Norris.

Author/creator	Norris, Mary, 1952- author.
Format	Book
Edition	First Edition.
Publication	New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2015]
Copyright Date	©2015
Description	228 pages ; 22 cm
Subjects	English language--Punctuation. Comma. English language--Errors of usage.

Variant title	Between you and me
Contents	Confessions of a Comma Queen -- Spelling is for weirdos -- That witch! -- The problem of Heesh -- Between you and me -- Comma comma comma comma, chameleon -- Who put the hyphen in Moby-Dick? -- A dash, a semicolon, and a colon walk into a bar -- What's up with the apostrophe? -- Fck this sht -- Ballad of a pencil junkie -- The million-dollar copy editor -- Some books I have found particularly helpful.
Abstract	Mary Norris has spent more than three decades in The New Yorker's copy department, maintaining its celebrated high standards. Now she brings her vast experience, good cheer, and finely sharpened pencils to help the rest of us in a boisterous language book as full of life as it is of practical advice. Between You & Me features Norris's laugh-out-loud descriptions of some of the most common and vexing problems in spelling, punctuation, and usage comma faults, danglers, 'who' vs. 'whom, ' 'that' vs. 'which, ' compound words, gender-neutral language and her clear explanations of how to handle them. She draws on examples from Charles Dickens, Emily Dickinson, Henry James, and the Lord's Prayer, as well as from The Honeymooners, The Simpsons, David Foster Wallace, and Gillian Flynn. She takes us to see a copy of Noah Webster's groundbreaking Blue-Back Speller, on a quest to find out who put the hyphen in Moby-Dick, on a pilgrimage to the world's only pencil-sharpener museum, and inside the hallowed halls of The New Yorker and her work with such celebrated writers as Pauline Kael, Philip Roth, and George Saunders. "--Jacket.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-212) and index.
LCCN	2014043252
ISBN	9780393240184 (cloth)
ISBN	0393240185 (cloth)

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