Grammarians, Celebrate National Grammar Day March 4!
I officially love Martha Brockenbrough. The founder of the Society for the Promotion of Good Grammar ( SPOGG ) and author of Things That Make Us [sic] created National Grammar Day in 2008. National Grammar Day is March 4. Now, that's a holiday I can fully support. You know this to be true, those of you who have lived through my discussions (that's what I'm calling them) regarding extraneous commas, Random capitalization, split infinitives and sentences ending in prepositions — not to mention noun-verb agreement, proper hyphenation and, for the love of all that's holy, the proper use of ordinal and cardinal numbers, especially in dates. My love of grammar is so notorious that a friend recognized my handwriting on a sign in a women's restroom in my hometown. "You scratched out that apostrophe, didn't you?" Vicky asked. Yes, I did. And I'd do it again in a heartbeat. I am totally unapologetic about my adherence to grammar rules, and I wi...