I wish to bitch about the edition of “A CHRISTMAS CAROL” I got to replace my old copy(I read it each Christmas). On jacket cover it labels the text therein as “the complete and unexpurgated text”. Yet, right at the start of the book, there is a mistake. It is says “MARLEY was dead, to begin with.”. It should say “MARLEY was dead: to begin with.” It has a comma where it should have a colon. Yes, I am nitpicking, but when you label your book as “the complete and unexpurgated text”, to me that means you should have the text exactly precisely right. This is a classic and important piece of literature. With something like this, the text to should be exactly and precisely correct. I hate that my money when to this. I feel as if I have been cheated.

If you think the difference between the comma and colon doesn’t matter, click here and read number 4: http://www.vulture.com/2014/01/best-punctuation-marks-literature-nabokov-eliot-dickens-levi.html