happy national grammar day!

you know this language junkie couldn’t let today pass without recognition. while i’ll be spending my day at the marked event, there will be more celebration of grammar to come on okieOLIO this week. let the grammar fun below tide you over until then. (wait, i’m the only one giddy about this?)

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Baltimore writer and editor John McIntyre of the “You Don’t Say” blog continues his tradition of writing a grammarnoir series to commemorate National Grammar Day.

NEW for 2012: Grammarnoir 4: Final Edition

Part I: “A Belle in the Night”
Part II: “The Mission”
Part III: “The Belly of the Beast”
Part IV: “The Chief”

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other great national grammar day articles:

Celebrating the Orderly Flow of Words in Our Lives by Alan Headbloom

A Tongue-in-Cheek National Grammar Day Quiz by Dennis Baron

5 Easy Ways to Learn Grammar with The New York Times by Katherine Schulten

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and grammar cartoons, of course:

via xkcd.com

via yawcomic.com