Today is Punctuation Day.
Quoting from Brian Bilston's book Days Like These "Punctuation Day, which occurs annually on this date, is a day on which pedants come together to criticise the punctuation and spelling of others, as they do on all other days. Things can become rather heated in the process, with arguments often spilling over into violence. This has led to colons being extracted, infinitives split, bullet points fired, and commas inverted. And for the improper use of ellipses...
He follows that, as he does for every day of the year, with a poem. Today's is entitled "Greengrocers Apostrophe's: and other Punctuation". It is an amusing read as are most of his daily poems.
It made me think, though, that the subject of sloppy and just plain erroneous punctuation seems to have fallen off the agenda.
I wonder if anyone these days even remembers Lynne Truss's book "Eats, Shoots and Leaves"?
Does anyone know if punctuation is taught in schools nowadays?
Does anyone care about punctuation any more?
