From ‘On Commas’, The Spectator, 27 February 1915:
I CAN picture the development of the misled reformer who introduced the comma into the languages of men. His laborious finger lost itself time after time among the elaborate pothooks of his generation; time after time he declared in a hissing voice that script was a fiend and time after time he led back his wandered finger to the beginning of the long crude sentence and renewed the slow chant that divinely revealed the thoughts of his distant friend. He had little access to print and was bothered with the bad writing of his many correspondents, but whether he was Jew or German or French or a rather unlikely Englishman this witness sayeth not.
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