The next in our series, brought to you courtesy of The New York Public Library Desk Reference, Fourth Edition.
Page 447:
“Watch out for spell checkers! If you ran the following sentence through your computer’s spell checker, it would tell you that nothing was wrong:
I have bin trying too improve my spelling for sum time now cents my secretary always says that it isn’t two grate.”
Page 445:
Ancient Greek texts had no punctuation and no spaces between words.
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Page 223:
Cavemen tended not to use punctuation or even coherent speech. Instead, they preferred the much maligned grunt.
On the rare occasion that punctuation was indeed employed by an engineering caveperson, it was more or less utilized to penetrate the skull of a passing mastodon.
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