National! “Punctuation” Day…
2008 September 22
To help my friend and English language-meister, Bill Brohaugh, celebrate National Punctuation Day on Wednesday, Sept 24, my tomatoes and I have started a punctuation scrapbook to the mark (ahem) the day.
There’s the Quotation Mark:
Or, for the typographic persnicketors amongst you, the curly quote:
The ever-popular period:
The much abused (especially by me) comma:
And finally, my personal fave, the ellipsis…
To one and “all,” have a Happy! National, Punctuation? Day…
I hear tomatoes are good for the colon:
How wonderful — a blog containing the word “persnicketors.” Even without extolling National Punctuation Day, you made my little-old-English-major heart beat faster! Thanks for a fun post.
valwebb: Thanks so much for stopping by. I’ll fess up and admit that I unabashedly stole the use of “persnicketors” from the blog of my friend Bill Brohaugh, who regularly introduces me to such fabulous words (and sniglets) as “persnicketors” and “smugacious.”