Darn, I forgot to send out NPD cards again this year …

Yes, this Wednesday is National Punctuation Day (By the powers invested in this blog, I invite all my non-US visitors to participate). National Punctuation Day is

“A celebration of the lowly comma, correctly used quotes, and other proper uses of periods, semicolons, and the ever-mysterious ellipsis.”

The NPD site provides links to resources (books & online), punctuation products (shameless commerce), a punctuation playtime program, how to celebrate, the official recipe for NPD meatloaf (PDF), etc.

Contact Jeff Rubin for more information about punctuation
Phone: (877) 588-1212 (toll free–in the US, I suspect)
email: Jeff@NationalPunctuationDay.com

Click here to see if I used the ellipsis correctly in the subject line.

Extra!!! Slow breaking news: Punctuation Man breaks with Associated Press,endorses serial comma. ’bout time, “I’d like to thank my parents, Mother Theresa and the Pope.”

For more on the Serial (aka the Oxford) comma Martha Barnette’s blog titled, Is There a Violinist in the Gay Church’s Bathroom or Not?

Published by Norm Benson

My name is Norm Benson and my Lowdermilk manuscript is out for beta review. This is the story of Walter and Inez Lowdermilk, an American couple who came to see soil erosion as a threat to civilization. Their pursuit of land conservation carried them from China and the Dust Bowl to Palestine, where their ideas about reclaiming the land helped build the case for the creation of Israel.

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