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For the editor in your life

Now they can take a little piece of their work home with them in the form of this lovely comma pendant.

comma pendant

(Just don’t correct that “they” to “he or she.”)

(And no, I don’t want the post recast in the plural.)

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Posted: June 18th, 2008 under whatever.
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Comment from J.D.
Time: June 18, 2008, 6:38 am

Oh, there’s the missing comma in direct address. I’ve been looking for it since the end of May, when I read about 100 final essays without it.

Thanks for helping me locate it, Tom.

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