It’s National Punctuation Day!

Most of us who are picky about punctuation—we like to think of ourselves as fastidious, thank you very much—are content to silently grumble when we come across an errant apostrophe on a restaurant menu, or a meaningless set of quotation marks. The more proactive (and technologically savvy) grammarians might take a picture of the offending punctuation marks with our camera phones, and share it with like-minded sticklers on our blogs; a few will even publish screeds on the subject. Yet by and large the diverse grammarian community has not yet organized politically; like so many disillusioned youths at coffee shops the world over, we’re likely to gripe and unlikely to take action.

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