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Article: Appreciate the apostrophe? Then happy Punctuation Day!(General News)
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- The Register Guard (Eugene, OR)
- Article date:
- August 21, 2005
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Byline: Greg Bolt The Register-Guard
help im being held captive by texters ;-)
- signed comma apostrophe and exclamation mark
Monday won't seem like much of a holiday to the text message generation, who, after all, see the semicolon as a wink rather than a nod to deft sentence structure.
But for those who cheer the precision of the properly placed parentheses, the diversion of a dash or just the utilitarian commonness of the comma, give up an exclamation point: August 22 is National Punctuation Day.
Jeff Rubin, a California newsletter publisher and self-described recovering Type A personality, founded the holiday to remind ...