A Wordsmith Bar Fight
An Oxford comma walks into a bar, where it spends the evening watching the television, getting drunk, and smoking cigars.
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Snippett Zone – Counting words
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Still Writing?
The Amateur Emigrant, by Robert Louis Stevenson (written 1879–80, published 1895). The author aboard ship from Europe to New York. He seems to have had full access to the different areas of the ship, the different classes of accommodations, the working conditions. He apparently talked with everybody, passengers and crew. His accounts of events, his …