👔 Coaching | 🎙️Podcast | ⏱️ Stopwatch | ⏰Off The Clock | & Guild | 📚 BooksHappy Saturday! It’s time for the hurdy-gurdy for the wordy nerdy. We’re Off the Clock. As always, the footnotes work best in the app or on the web. This is bonus content for the special people who are interested in language. Read the whole thing when you join for half off:
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“They demanded a shorter working day and a higher piecework rate per thousand letters set, not excluding punctuation marks. This small event set off nothing more nor less than the all-Russian political strike—that is, a strike which started over punctuation marks and ended by felling absolutism.” This week, the United States Treasury placed its last order for penny blanks, the flat metal discs that eventually become pennies.¹ This means that once the supply has run out, the federal government will no longer make pennies. Give that the cost to make each one-cent piece is four cents, it makes economic sense. But there’s something sad about eliminating something so small that has injected so much significance into a country whose economic strength has been tied to its success story. The same thing could be said for the period. The period may be going the way of the penny. In certain circles, that is... Continue reading this post for free in the Substack app
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No. More. Periods.
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