To help my friend and English language-meister, Bill Brohaugh, celebrate National Punctuation Day on Wednesday, Sept 24, my tomatoes and I have started a punctuation scrapbook to the mark (ahem) the day.
There’s the Quotation Mark:
Or, for the typographic persnicketors amongst you, the curly quote:
The ever-popular period:
The much abused (especially by me) comma:
And finally, my personal fave, the ellipsis…
To one and “all,” have a Happy! National, Punctuation? Day…
Karen Gibson is the head soup chef, vegetable chopper-upper, and dishwasher here at SoupAddict.com, where she shares recipes for all manner of foods-in-bowls.
soupaddict says
valwebb: Thanks so much for stopping by. I’ll fess up and admit that I unabashedly stole the use of “persnicketors” from the blog of my friend Bill Brohaugh, who regularly introduces me to such fabulous words (and sniglets) as “persnicketors” and “smugacious.”
valwebb says
How wonderful — a blog containing the word “persnicketors.” Even without extolling National Punctuation Day, you made my little-old-English-major heart beat faster! Thanks for a fun post.
Bill Brohaugh says
I hear tomatoes are good for the colon: