“‘I told you girls couldn’t learn Latin. It’s “Nomen non crescens genitivo.”’
    ‘Very well, then,’ said Maggie, pouting. ‘I can say that as well as you can. And you don’t mind your stops. For you ought to stop twice as long at a semicolon as you do at a comma, and you make the longest stops where there ought to be no stop at all.’”

—George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss, 1860.