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Author Keith Houston on shady characters and the secret life of punctuation

This month Keith Houston is our guide to the sometimes-forgotten (but eternally-interesting) realms of punctuation. His blog Shady Characters and its eponymous book Shady Characters: The Secret Life of Punctuation explore the history and use of the marks that make our work so readable.

November 4, 2013 in Interviews.

Now Available! The Chicago Manual of Style, 18th Edition

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