A Day To Show Some Love for Punctuation
Today, Sept. 24, is National Punctuation Day, founded by West Contra Costa County resident Jeff Rubin. You have until Sept. 30 to enter a contest using all 13 punctuation marks in a paragraph of no more than three sentences.
It's all about the "lowly comma" and the "ever-mysterious ellipsis." Throw in the hyphen, brackets, semicolon or question mark. Do you know your 13 punctuation marks, what they mean, and how to use them? That's one of the challenges for today's 8th Annual National Punctuation Day©. Founded by Pinole's Jeff Rubin, the Sept. 24 holiday is also hosting its writing contest. Contest rules require contestants to "write a paragraph, maximum of three sentences, using these 13 punctuation marks: apostrophe, brackets, colon, comma, dash, ellipsis, exclamation point, hyphen, parentheses, period, question mark, quotation mark, and semicolon. You may use a punctuation mark more than once." Entries can be emailed to Jeff@NationalPunctuationDay.com The …
