When we are very young, we tend to regard the ability to use a colon much as a budding pianist regards the ability to play with crossed hands: many of us, when we are older, regard it as a proof… — Eric Partridge Copy Share Image
“To be mulcted of our money and mutilated of our property is serious enough: to be deprived of our colon would be intolerable.” — Eric Partridge Copy Share Image
A dash derives from "to dash," to shatter, strike violently, to throw suddenly or violently, hence to throw carelessly in or on, hence to… — Eric Partridge Copy Share Image
When we are very young, we tend to regard the ability to use a colon much as a budding pianist regards the ability to… — Eric Partridge Copy Share Image
“War…next to love, has most captured the world’s imagination” – Eric Partridge, famous lexicographer and author who served in the Australian Imperial Force during… — Eric Partridge Copy Share Image
Like italics and hyphens, quotation marks are to be used as sparingly as possible. They should light the way, not darken it. — Eric Partridge Copy Share Image
