However: Alpha or Omega?
When I was in my upper 30s, working with the Palm Beach Post, I came across a piece written by the copy chief that had the conjunction however in the middle of a sentence, with a comma on either side. I still remember how startled I was. I’d never encountered this punctuation error before, and couldn’t believe that the man in charge of ensuring the correctness of grammar, spelling, punctuation – all of the mechanics of writing – would write like that. Couldn’t he see that he