In its early usage the semicolon served as a pause twice as long as a comma, and half as long as a colon. Eventually an adjustment in usage became identified by grammarians. In Semicolon, Cecelia Watson explains: The semicolon had been transformed. Before the 1800s, it had been a pause. By the early 1800s, grammarians …

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Apart from the utilitarian conformity for printers of having common symbols and forms of expression for their productions, grammar became in the eighteenth and nineteenth century a science, a common shared body of knowledge. It also became a science in terms of individuals who sought to popularise systems of their own devising, the use of …

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A very, very helpful post on Leadership Freak by Dan Rockwell. Helping should be an innate aspect of life as a follower of Jesus. Rockwell observes that “The goal of helping is enabling, not more helping.” We should be helpers, and not ignore those in need, particularly those we have particular responsibility for. But before …

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