I recently posted a great infographic about the ampersand. If you’re interested in punctuation, you’ll appreciate another article I found on 14 punctuation marks “you never knew existed”!
My favourite is probably the interrobang, as I’ve discussed previously. But I also really like the guillemets (<< >>), which are used in non-English languages as quotation marks. The translation of “guillemets” is “Little Williams” by the way!
Which is your favourite of the punctuation marks?
The ampersand is a thing of beauty, a very useable symbol found everywhere from signs to handwritten notes.
It also has a long history, which is celebrated in this infographic created by Six Revisions. I had no idea it dates back to 63 BC!
Are you a stickler for correct punctuation? Do you appreciate a well-placed apostrophe? Then your day has come – it’s National Punctuation Day!
Now in its seventh official year of celebration, the holiday started when one man, Jeff Rubin, grew frustrated of spotting errors in his newspaper. The event has grown since then, with Rubin’s aim being more educational than correctional these days.
Rubin says he wanted to help educators remind students that punctuation still matters, even in an age of rapid-fire tweets and text messages.
“We are graduating children from high schools now who cannot read and cannot write,” he says. “When these kids get out into the real world, they’re going to be unemployable.” (Source: CNN)
The National Punctuation Day website features activities including “a recipe for meatloaf that can be sculpted to look like exclamation points and semicolons”. I hope it also includes instructions on how to use these correctly.
I recently posted a great infographic about the ampersand. If you’re interested in punctuation, you’ll appreciate another article I found on 14 punctuation marks “you never knew existed”!