Neal Whitman wrote recently to the American Dialect Society mailing list to inquire about a proscription he found in Bill Walsh’s Lapsing Into a Comma (2000:58-9): Here’s a principle that even good writers tend to violate, especially in fiction: You cannot splice a second clause onto a “he said” or “she said” type of attribution. WRONG: “I … Continue reading “X”, Y said, and VP