The comma seems to be, so to speak, in the public eye at the moment. Not only has the French Senate been discussing the placing of this punctuation mark in a Wheat Bil (as mentioned in a leading article the other day), but a barrister has just published a book with the title "Hanged by a Comma." The consequences of commas misplaced or omitted are not usually human accidents of that drastic character; more commonly they involve pecuniary loss. One classic recent instan is a mistake made while the Ottawa agreements were being put through.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.