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Comma Strike

The 1905 labor action by printers at Sytin’s Moscow publishing house, who demanded payment for setting punctuation marks, which escalated into a national strike and contributed to the 1905 Russian Revolution.

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121 years ago, Russian printers went on strike over commas.

Commas can change meaning (“eats shoots and leaves” versus “eats, shoots and leaves” or “I ate, grandma” versus “I ate grandma”), but over a century ago, commas helped change the Russian government. In 1905, uprisings broke out all across the

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