From, a schoolboy’s essay:—“A semicolon is a period sitting on top of a comma. Some think that the. first time a semicolon was used was when some man did not know whether to use a comma or a period, so he used both of them together.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 October 1938, Page 4
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46Untitled Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 October 1938, Page 4
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