---
title: 'How to Do Things with Words'
date: '2006-08-09T13:19:01-04:00'
permalink: /how-to-do-things-with-words/
tags:
    - reading
---

…and why it matters. Two unrelated links:

[meg](http://xom.blogs.com/xoom/2006/08/dubya_tee.html) on the meaning of the phrase “WT,” and how those who use it might benefit from learning to diagram sentences.

And [the Globe and Mail](http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20060806.wr-rogers07/BNStory/Business/?cid=al_gam_nletter_newsUp) on the $2.13 million comma. (Via [scribblingwoman](http://www.unbsj.ca/arts/english/jones/mt/archives/2006/08/and.html).)