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Those extra letters dangling at the ends of words are the genitalia of grammar.

Mary Norris Between You Me: Confessions of a Comma Q… genitalia grammar words

If commas are open to interpretation, hyphens are downright Delphic.

Mary Norris comma hyphen interpretation language punctuation

You cannot legislate language. Prohibition never worked, right? Not for booze and not for sex and not for words.

Mary Norris Between You Me: Confessions of a Comma Q… language legislate

Nobody knows everything — one of the pleasures of language is that there is always something new to learn — and everybody makes mistakes.

Mary Norris Between You Me: Confessions of a Comma Q… language

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 Q… language

Was it an insult to be called a “woman writer”? Didn’t it have a taint of, say, the “woman driver”?

Mary Norris Between You Me: Confessions of a Comma Q… woman writer

The better the writer, the more complicated the dangler.

Mary Norris Between You Me: Confessions of a Comma Q… dangler writer

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Sickness – Sartre’s first novel

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Hint 1 meaning

Seasickness; hence, any similar sickness of the stomach accompanied with a propensity to vomit; qualm; squeamishness of the stomach; loathing.

Hint 2 anagram

ESNAAU

Hint 3 another clue

PERPLEXED state

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