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What is the relationship between 'being punctual' and 'punctuation'?
Is it that, in the context of the rhythm of reading - as say, in enforcing a
pause with a comma to draw attention to a clause - 'punctuation' is form of
timing (working like a drum), 'punctual' as it were??
Stephen V
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According to the OED, both terms derive from "Latin _punctualis_, of or
relating to a point in space."
So a dot in time saves nine.
Robin
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