The Pedants' Society

Fellow No. 00065

Mrs Eustacia Trenholm

Admitted September 1872 · F. (fr.)

Maintained, until her death in 1923, that the comma’s proper position in a list of three was "a matter for individual judgement, exercised in accordance with settled usage". The Society did not, in her lifetime, settle the usage.

Struck Off, May 1881. Reason: chronic dangling modifiers.
Verified by the Society

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