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Arkansas can’t legalise cannabis 'because of a typo'
Plans to legalise marijuana in Arkansas have been scuppered - by spelling errors and “ambiguities in text”. Arkansas Attorney General, Leslie Rutledge, said “errors of grammar, punctuation and spelling” were the reason behind her rejection of the constitutional amendment, the Associated Press reports. The proposal, written by Marry Berry, a resident of Summit, Arkansas, called for all residents to cultivate, produce, possess and use cannabis and anything produced from the plant.
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The mysterious origins of punctuation
Commas, semicolons and question marks are so commonplace it seems as if they were always there – but that’s not the case. Keith Houston explains their history.
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13 Little-Known Punctuation Marks We Should Be Using
Because sometimes periods, commas, colons, semi-colons, dashes, hyphens, apostrophes, question marks, exclamation points, quotation marks, brackets, parentheses, braces, and ellipses won't do.
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New Punctuation Marks
Need that sarcasm mark
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The Oxford comma: Decried, defended, and debated [infographic]
No matter what side of the Oxford comma debate you find yourself on, you'll …
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Will We Use Commas in the Future?
There’s no denying that commas are helpful little flecks of punctuation. They allow us to separate written clauses and do good work when especially numerous or complicated groups of things exist in a single sentence. But do we really need them? That’s a trickier question.
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When did our plainest punctuation mark become so aggressive?
The period was always the humblest of punctuation marks. Recently, however, it’s started getting angry. I’ve noticed it in my text messages and online chats, where people use the period not simply to conclude a sentence, but to announce “I am not happy about the sentence I just concluded.”
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