Wednesday, September 25, 2013
Books / Grammar / Arts / News A National Punctuation Day postscript
Posted By Steve Bogira on 09.25.13 at 01:13 PM
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For the punctuation lovers on your gift list you may want to take a look at Shady Characters a 352 page tell all published yesterday on the quote Secret Life of Punctuation unquote According to the New Yorker blog the book will fill you in on the sensuous ampersand and the quote irrepressible unquote hash mark aka the octothorpe
You also should check out this hilarious array of photographic evidence that Tea Party protesters are punctuation challenged although to be fair they cant spell either
We will put National Punctuation Day on our 2014 calendar as soon as we get a 2014 calendar so as not to miss it again next year But we probably were celebrating in spirit yesterday because as Richard J Daley would have put it Everyones a punctuation mark on National Punctuation Day
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