Thursday, March 16, 2017

Bill Walsh, copy editor and authority on language, dies at 55

A copy editor has died and gone to his reward.
His punctuation strictures now can safely be ignored.
I’ll use a semicolon; if I like -- and desecrate --
Hyphens and quotation ‘marks”, and misspell fete as fate.
How beautiful the world now seems without his expertise:
My dangling participles, how lovely they increase!


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