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a tiny hook that decides whether you eat grandma or eat, grandma
means A punctuation mark (,) used to signal a brief pause, separate items in a list, or set off clauses within a sentence.
from From the Greek 'komma,' meaning 'a piece cut off' or 'a clause,' from 'koptein,' to cut or strike. To the Greeks the comma wasn't the mark itself but the short chunk of sentence it carved out — the slice of phrase. Latin borrowed it as 'comma,' and over time the name slid from the cut-off clause to the little curved blade that does the cutting.
- oxford war
- One comma sparked endless grammar holy wars
- legal weight
- A missing comma cost a dairy $5 million
- greek roots
- Named from komma, meaning a piece cut off
- musical cousin
- In music, a comma is a microscopic pitch gap
- splice sin
- Joining two sentences with one is a classic crime
oxford comma — punctuation debate: whether to use a comma before 'and' in a list (e.g., 'apples, oranges, and bananas')
comma splice — grammar error: joining two independent clauses with only a comma instead of proper punctuation