While reforming language I crave leave to introduce an improvement in punctuation—the snigger point, or note of cachinnation. It is written thus and represents, as nearly as may be, a smiling mouth. It is to be appended, with the full stop, to every jocular or ironical sentence; or, without the stop, to every jocular or ironical clause of a sentence otherwise serious—thus: “Mr. Edward Bok is the noblest work of God .”86
