S
sacred texts 13–14
sarcasm marks 339
Scanlon, Jesse 328–9
scare quotes 312–13, 317, 319
Schulz, Charles 360
Schwalbe, Will 180
scriptura continua 4, 16
section (of a text) 115–16
mark 82, 118–19
numerical 119–20
semantic approach 87–95, 111, 229, 321, 329–30, 351–2
apostrophes 287–9
asterisks 332
colons 220–22
commas 230, 241–8, 250–51
dashes 145–54
ellipsis dots 165
hyphens 265–70
italics 325
paragraphing 125–6, 132
periods 135–7, 172–5
poetry 168–70
quotation marks 312–13
semicolons 203–4, 208–11
text organization 111–22
semicolon 201–14
child use 114
early uses 51
first recorded use 37–8
frequency 228
legal importance 212
support 214–15
vs colon 58–9, 207, 218, 220–22
vs comma 203–6, 230–33
vs period 202–8
Semicolon Appreciation Society 215
semicolash 219
Senhouse, Roger 209
sense units 138–9
serial comma see comma
Shakespeare, William 38–43, 49, 90, 153, 177, 216, 261, 280, 290, 299, 308, 324
Shaw, George Bernard 281–2
Sheridan, Thomas 62–3
Shipley, David 181
silent reading 7, 10
Simo, Joseph 121–4
Sing, Sue 358
slash 27, 35–6, 332–4
Smallfield, George 43, 76–7, 282, 209
smart quotes 310
smiley see emoticon
Smith, John 70–71
sociolinguistic function 346
solid setting 165, 262–9
spacing
between initials 80
by children 121–3
in paragraphs 126, 130, 318
Internet 331, 334
of ellipsis dots 163–5
on page 111–22
showing section-break 117–18
vs hyphen 262–70
vs quotation marks 315
Speckter, Martin K 186
speech marks see quotation marks
Spees, Kiran 359
spelling and punctuation 318, 330
spelling reform 45–6, 281–2
square brackets see brackets
standardization 29, 34, 276, 290, 292, 328–30, 347–8
statement (in grammar) 142, 182
Steel, David 58–9, 61, 64, 87, 252
Steele, Joshua 66, 192
Stein, Gertrude 188–9, 347, 349–50
Sterne, Laurence 151
Stevenson, Angus 264
stop, first recorded use 37
Stoppard, Tom 150
stories about punctuation 359
Stower, Charles 71
Strunk, William 104, 252–3
stylistic varieties 91, 346–7, 355–6
apostrophes in 292
brackets in 296
dashes in 147–8
Internet 175, 291–2, 329, 337
italics in 324
ornamental marks in 118–19
paragraphing in 127–8, 132
periods in 171
subject/verb comma 28, 57–8, 243, 258
suspension dots see ellipsis dots
Sutherland, Kathryn 97, 100–102
swung dash 147–8
system, notion of 107–10, 345–6, 354–5
T
tag questions 189–90
Taylor, John 68
Taylor, William 102
teaching 351–61
apostrophes 282, 290, 292, 345
approaches 107–8, 197
commas 229–30, 239, 246
consistency 83, 138
criticised 63
dashes 145
games 89–90
hyphens 261
indention 129
Internet usage 175, 329
letter-writing 131
paragraphing 127, 130
quotation marks 312
spacing 121–3
unauthentic rules 345
Teberosky, Ana 357
Tennyson, Alfred 68
testing 39, 83, 124, 250
texting 171, 173–4
Thomas, Dylan 169
tilde 147–8
Tiro 20
titles and italics 322–3
tolerance 342–8
Tomlinson, Ray 334
tone of voice 142–3, 160, 166, 182–3, 190–93, 240–41, 298–9, 334, 336, 352–3
Tonson, Jacob 68
topic sentence 125
trigon 21
trivium 27
Truss, Lynne xiii, 83, 329, 342, 347
Twain, Mark 68, 74, 80, 87, 137, 177, 184, 267, 343–4
Twitter 162, 331, 335
typewriting 147, 179, 319–20
poetry 200
Typo Eradication Advancement League 275–6
typography see graphic design
typo hunt 275–6, 290
U
Udall, Nicolas 47–8
Ulysses 93, 94, 151, 253, 315
underbar 334
underlining 132, 319–20, 326
Undley bracteate 6, 9
uptalk 191–3
Urban Dictionary 293–4
URLs see Internet
US Board of Geographic Names 272, 288–9
V
vertical bar 334
Vespasian Psalter 11
Vonnegut, Kurt 201, 214, 361
W
Ward, Artemus 340
Ward, J P 200
Warren, James 212
Waseleski, Carol 179–80
Waterhouse, Keith 283
Waterstones story 285, 287–8
Waugh, Evelyn 209
Webster, Noah 262, 266
White, E B 104, 252–3
Wilde, Oscar 343
Wilkins, John 187
Wilson, John 77–9, 87, 137, 248, 252, 309
Wilson, Thomas 48–9
Wilson, Woodrow 272
Winfrey, Oprah 92
Wit and Mirth 112
Woolf, Virginia 214
Worcester, Joseph 266
word-spaces 2–16, 19, 331
Wordsworth, William 67–8, 314
Wordsworthians see Jonsonians vs Wordsworthians
Z
zero punctuation 167–74, 234, 330–31
zero tolerance 342