It’s National Punctuation Day!
Posted on Monday the 24th of September, 2007 at 1:27 pm in AsidesHaven’t heard of it? National Punctuation Day honors and celebrates “…the lowly comma,correctly used quotes and other proper uses of periods, semicolons and the ever-mysterious [and ignored] ellipsis.” Want to know more? There exists a wealth of information on the web about punctuation in general—and of course you are just dying to learn about it; if you just want to know about the day itself, it has its own website with lots of information and history: here.
For the more astute reader, you will notice that all standard English punctuation has had a chance to shine in this short post (except the parenthesis that is.)
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Hello,
I am the founder of National Punctuation Day. Thanks for mentioning the holiday.
There’s a punctuation error in the first paragraph: “it has it’s own website with lots of information and history.” There is no apostrophe in “its” when it’s possessive. “It’s” is a contraction meaning “it is.”
I hope you celebrated in style. It was an exhausting day for me, culminating in the annual National Punctuation Day Parade the the cooking of the Official Meat Loaf of
National Punctuation Day (photos on the Web site).
Yours in proper punctuation,
JEFF RUBIN
Reply to Jeff RubinTypo…I swear. Thanks for the heads up.
Reply to AaronWhats with the duplicate word? “Day Parade the the cooking of” the the?
Thanks.
Reply to Just a visitorGood punctuation is overated.
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