Photo courtesy of Jess Haskins
National Punctuation Day - who knew? Journalist Jeff Rubin, a stickler for punctuation, created National Punctuation Day in 2004 to honor and call attention to this oft-ignored aspect of written language. As he told the Washington Post, ""It's just always been that one subset of literacy that has really intrigued me... I still sit around and read the paper, and sometimes I have a red Sharpie in my hand. I play a little game: How many errors can I find today?"
If you, like Jeff Rubin, are crazy for the comma or silly for the semi-colon, there is (of course) a National Punctuation Day website, where you will find a variety of resources, including ways to celebrate National Punctuation Day. Also, please visit About.com's Grammar and Composition Guide to learn more about the origins of punctuation.
And though I am not overly punctuation-focused (?!), I should mention a favorite amusement of mine from which I grabbed the above photo - the "blog" of "unnecessary" quotation marks, a hilarious procession of reader-contributed "pictures."
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