September 24 is National Punctuation Day. National Punctuation Day was founded in 2004 by Jeff Rubin, “The Newsletter Guy.”
We all like to look at funny spelling, grammar, and punctuation mistakes — as long as they belong to someone else! Here are some links I thought you would find interesting, informative, and/or funny!
Here are some great punctuation mistakes!
Here are some common punctuation mistakes that bloggers (and everyone else) make!
Here are the three most hideous grammar mistakes in advertising!
Here are the most common punctuation mistakes (according to someone else, I guess)!
Here are some pretty funny misuses and omissions of punctuation!
Happy National Punctuation Day! Don’t forget to use your semicolons! (I use way too many exclamation points.)
Remember I am looking for ideas for blog posts: What would you like to read about?
Question: Sometimes I read or hear someone say “more importantly.” Why not “more important”? Which is correct? (I think the second.) What is the rule for this?
Ha! I had to look it up in my own book: MORE IMPORTANT means WHAT IS MORE IMPORTANT. MORE IMPORTANTLY means IN A MORE IMPORTANT WAY.
More important, we need to clean up the city.
He greats dogs more importantly than people.
I know Jeff Rubin, father of National Punc Day. I have submitted a couple of punc marks to him.
This goes back to the olden days before emoticons, which are the punc marks of today. Is there a usage manual for them?
Perhaps you should write one before someone else does!