The Accidental Apostrophe

It was a Greek librarian called Aristophanes (not the playwright), working in the great library of Alexandria in the third century BC, who introduced dots between phrases, to help the reader know where to pause.

I’m inclined to think it’s something in between and would go with St Augustine – ‘use any method you choose’.

short prepositions such as to, at, on, in. Capitalize any that are four letters or more, such as over, under, behind, along, through. (Many pundits say five letters or more, but most versions of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest break this rule, so I’m going for four.)

Gertrude Stein was undeniably right when she wrote that a rose is a rose is a rose.

Molly Bloom’s famous interior monologue, which ends Ulysses, runs in my Penguin edition to sixty-three pages

St Isidore of Seville deserves an honourable mention, as does Alcuin of York, intellectual mover and shaker at the court of the Holy Roman Emperor Charlemagne. After that, things began to settle down, although illustrated medieval manuscripts allowed their scribes individual variations, touches of personal taste and whimsy.

It was a Greek librarian called Aristophanes (not the playwright), working in the great library of Alexandria in the third century BC, who introduced dots between phrases, to help the reader know where to pause.

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