fatdavid8

I was weeding my collection of books today and happened upon my old Little, Brown Handbook.

I was sidetracked for a bit by the intricacies of grammar and usage: the rules for commas, the subject and its following predicate, the subjunctive and indicative moods, etc.

I decided that if I were an editor at Little, Brown, I'd try to slip in that the portion of a sentence that follows a semi-colon should be referred to as the "Colostomy".