Tuesday, August the 23rd, 2005
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I have just learned, too late, that yesterday was National Punctuation Day. Well, it was in the United States of Pining & Pothorst Land*. That being so, the website is emblazoned with patriotic flags, refers to periods rather than full stops, has a picture of “National Punctuation Day Founder” Jeff Rubin wearing a vest down at the gym, is littered with ®s wherever you look, and seems to be aimed primarily at the “business community”. I can only sigh. Peter Blegvad once “dreamed of a world where accountants are rarer than poets”. Would that it were so.
Anyway, I came upon Jeff Rubin's gym vest &c. via the link at languagehat.com, which also points us in the direction of this rather splendid history of punctuation.
* NOTE : For an explanation of this term, see Pining And Pothorst, 2nd September 2004.