The difference is the comma of Didymus, or syntonic comma, and equals 0.22 of a semitone.
There are two commonly cited commas, the Pythagorean comma and the comma of Didymus, or syntonic comma.
In a 2001 Fifth Circuit case, a group of anti-gun academics submitted an amicus curiae (friend of the court) brief arguing that the "unusual" commas of the Second Amendment support the collective rights interpretation.
The inverted commas of irony are never far away.
I was there because I corresponded briefly with the author about commas, of all things—and he gave me crucial material for a chapter in my own book, providing the contrarian point of view.
Virginia Woolf's "To the Lighthouse," especially, is imitated in the drifting weave of action and interior reflection, and in the rhythms, paced by commas, of the long descriptive sentences.
After a brief lull, the "comma head" of the system will pivot through, bringing dramatically cold air and a chance of snow for many.
In "dot/comma" recording, the locomotor activity of a fly was recorded by keep pressing the dot key or the comma key of a personal computer, to record a climbing or a resting fly, in that order.
In "dot/comma" recording, the locomotor activity of a single fly was monitored by keeping pressed the dot key or the comma key of a personal computer, to record a moving or resting fly respectively.
Besides people's underuse of the comma and overuse of the exclamation mark, I wonder why so many of them are on Facebook during the workday.
