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Joseph Robertson

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influence on punctuation

  • In punctuation: Punctuation in English since 1600

    …Robert Monteith in 1704 and Joseph Robertson in 1795. Excessive punctuation was common in the 18th century: at its worst it used commas with every subordinate clause and separable phrase. Vestiges of this attitude are found in a handbook published in London as late as 1880. It was the lexicographers…

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