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Having at hand a large pile of “might be interesting sometime” books is a wonderful anesthetic for convalescing readers, and mine includes potential gems like Alex Trumble’s “A Brief History

Having at hand a large pile of “might be interesting sometime” books is a wonderful anesthetic for convalescing readers, and mine includes potential gems like Alex Trumble’s “A Brief History

What in Tarnation (episode #1599) - Episodes - A Way with Words, a fun radio show and podcast about language

Read more from Mary Norris on The New Yorker

The American Author Who Fell in Love With the Greek Language Credit: Larry D. Moore, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia/Illustration: Greek Reporter Mary Norris is an American author who learned the Greek language during her twenty-four-year career at the famous ” New Yorker’‘ magazine. In 2019 she published her new book ”Greek to Me – Adventures of the Comma Queen,” where she narrates the extraordinary adventure she undertook when she decided to learn the Greek language. ” width=”1080″>...

A retired British newspaperman, he founded the Apostrophe Protection Society to guard against the erosion of a humble yet essential element of the English language.

John Richards, bulwark for the apostrophe against grammatical ‘barbarians,’ dies at 97 Emily Langer © Family photo “I think that grammar is a valued part of our civilization,” John Richards declared. “I don’t like any attempt to diminish it.” John Richards, a British newspaperman who attracted a flurry of international attention when he founded and later resignedly disbanded the Apostrophe Protection Society, a self-styled bulwark against the “barbarians” ...

Been with the new yorker for a decade and caught a mistake in a book beginning to excerpt and this is unusual because the book had been through the editing and a note came back and said who is this woman and will she come live with me. and mary says im still available. and it is a joy to welcome mary norris author of a book about language and life at the new yorker entitled between you and me confessions of a comma queen. welcome, mary. >> thank you. it is so nice to be here. >> and so a lot of ...