So many things in language can never be known or settled or explained, except by custom. — Mary Norris, Between You Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen
So many things in language can never be known or settled or explained, except by custom. — Mary Norris, Between You Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen
So many things in language can never be known or settled or explained, except by custom. — Mary Norris, Between You Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen
So many things in language can never be known or settled or explained, except by custom. — Mary Norris, Between You Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen
So many things in language can never be known or settled or explained, except by custom. — Mary Norris, Between You Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen
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So many things in language can never be known or settled or explained, except by custom.

— Mary Norris, Between You Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen
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