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An editor at the Washington Post published a style guide called Lapsing into a Comma—hard to beat that as a name for a usage manual.

Plugging in coma or comma did not yield much of anything for my searches here. Maybe, I accessed the wrong database…

I feel sure that typos and misspellings account for many entries, especially with the condoning of creative (mis)spelling in today’s schools.

BOTOH, just plain ignorance is just as likely. A little while ago, some Freep poster had this: “here of munipulating” for “hear of manipulating.”

It’s a combination of ‘real’ quotes (“ranting and waving”, “historically < hysterically”, “pankick attack”, “grandma seizure”, “fall into a comma”).

(I’m taking you to mean by ‘real’ in this context “somebody said/wrote it without intending it to be a joke.” The combination was purposeful and advertent, concocted with jocular intent; the quotes were, at least on one occasion to my knowledge, not.)

Last edited by DavidTuggy (2011-08-08 06:59:22)

Laughing my ass off!!!!!!!!

Last edited by Dixon Wragg (2013-06-23 05:56:04)