Remembering Bill Walsh's Way With Words
Language authority and Washington Post copy editor Bill Walsh died Wednesday after a long career making other people's writing better.
by Linda Holmes
Mar 16, 2017
3 minutes
I've shed many of my physical books during my various moves, but one that I still have is Bill Walsh's Lapsing Into A Comma. Its subtitle: A Curmudgeon's Guide to the Many Things That Can Go Wrong In Print — and How to Avoid Them. I either loaned it to someone at some point or I intended to, because I wrote on the dedication page: "A book I read and loved, that it takes a grouchy writer to appreciate."
That comma should not be there, so that's embarrassing.
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