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Summit-County comma

Named for the County in Ohio in which this particular ailment seems to be common.

A comma placed at a ludicrous position in a sentence, but specifically when placed directly after the subject and before the verb.

"The bright blue car, stopped at the stop light." is a sentence containing the Summit-County comma.

Up top comma

In the educated community, an "up top comma" is known as an apostrophe!!!

I am naming my baby "Honesty" and it is spelled like H-O-"up top comma"-N-A-S-T-Y. (Ho'nasty)

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‘specialist’, in inverted commas

a, colloquially, ‘shrink’

Half a year rolled around, and, the friendly, nice, practically useless ‘specialist’, in inverted commas, telephones, asking what’s been happening?

I respect your avocation of guitar. I respect your avocation of tennis.

I do NOT respect your vocation yet.

‘specialist’, in inverted commas

a, colloquially, ‘shrink’.

Half a year rolled around and ‘specialist’ in inverted commas

telephones and ask ‘What’s been happening?’

Just tell the ‘specialist’, in inverted commas, paraphrase, ‘I respect your vocations of guitar, and tennis’ yet I do NOT really necessarily respect your vocation, of ‘specialist’, in inverted commas. Sigmund ‘Fraud’ practitioners (the operative word) are like parasites, being fair to parasites.

Dog gone comma

Dog gone comma means stupid comma.

I hate this dog gone comma.

The “HA”xford Comma

To place a comma after writing out a laughing noise in a sentence.

Example of The “HA”xford Comma:
Hahahaha, that is so funny that you said that.