http://www.alphadictionary.com/blog/?p=213 A Blog about Words and Language(s) from alphaDictionary.com Tue, 16 Apr 2013 09:00:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.6 http://www.alphadictionary.com/blog/?p=213&cpage=1#comment-112816 Stargzer Thu, 07 Aug 2008 01:52:29 +0000 http://www.alphadictionary.com/blog/?p=213#comment-112816 Another piece of punctuation that has sparked volumes upon volumes of commentary and argument is the simple comma, specifically, the third comma in the Second Amendment to the U. S. Constitution as passed by the House and Senate. Wikipedia has an article on the Second Amendment ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution ). It appears that the copy passed by the House and Senate had two more commas than the original copy and the copies send to the States. What would the original drafters have given for a simple word processor with cut-and-paste? Another piece of punctuation that has sparked volumes upon volumes of commentary and argument is the simple comma, specifically, the third comma in the Second Amendment to the U. S. Constitution as passed by the House and Senate. Wikipedia has an article on the Second Amendment ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution ). It appears that the copy passed by the House and Senate had two more commas than the original copy and the copies send to the States. What would the original drafters have given for a simple word processor with cut-and-paste?

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