[Eric in the Ozarks]

How did Oxford come to own the comma in the first place ?

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

“How did Oxford come to own the comma in the first place ?”

They agreed to renounce the use of the tilde and umlaut, and traded two semi-quavers for it in the early years of the twentieth century, in an obscure clause of the Balfour Declaration. Like so many things in history, it seemed like a good idea at the time.

[nickcarraway]

I think it was during the Crimean War.