Punctuation
24. September 2010 | 15:48Punctuation gets high marks on holiday
Appreciate the apostrophe, salute the semicolon and exalt the exclamation point Friday. It’s National Punctuation Day! (News Source: CNN - 11:03:50)
U.S. comma, comma, comma chameleon wants Canadians to get their punctuation right
Spliced commas, misplaced apostrophes and out-of-place quotation marks make it clear: the public’s punctuation is pitiful - and that’s the point behind National Punctuation Day. (News Source: Canada.com - 20:44:05)
English teachers share pet peeves on National Punctuation Day
Texting lingo often finds its way into students’ work. (News Source: The Grand Rapids Press - 10:00:47)
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Your preferred username; punctuation is not allowed except for periods, hyphens, and underscores. A valid e-mail address. All e-mails from the system will be sent to this address. (News Source: Fort Frances Times - 19:10:41)
Marcophiles: Perfecting punctuation and discount shopping
Anyone who reads, whether it’s pricey best-seller books to newspapers, magazines or online blogs, knows that Americans are getting sloppy about punctuation.Computer programs offering spell checks and punctuation/grammar programs also can add to the problem, with conflicting and contradictory “corrections” to our efforts. (News Source: Naples Daily News - 20:12:00)
Two candidates running for Norfork mayor
Editor’s note: The Baxter Bulletin sent identical questionnaires to municipal candidates in the Twin Lakes Area.The Bulletin is printing profiles of those candidates in advance of the Nov. 2 general election. The profiles are in the candidates’ own words and have been edited only for grammar, punctuation and length. (News Source: Baxter Bulletin - 10:46:37)
Review: Punctuation Spire
A celebration of linguistics, sculptor William Crutchfield’s piece employs the usual syntax suspects in the installation on display at IUPUI’s Campus Center. by Dan Grossman 3 stars IUPUI Campus Center…. [ Read more ] [ Subscribe to the comments on this story ] (News Source: Nuvo - 21:28:48)
The Book of Unnecessary Quotation Marks
Bethany Keeley (Chronicle Books) by Dave Hayden Be they glaringly misspelled words, foreign language translations gone wrong or the glaringly obvious punctuation errors, we as an English culture seem to enjoy poking fun at what is usually the consequence of being educationally or linguistically disadvantaged. In the sphere of books (or blogs) devoted to pointing these out—quotation marks gone … (News Source: The Coast - 04:19:56)
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