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I have a penchant for odd holidays, but National Grammar Day in particular is a holiday I wish we could celebrate every day. Imagine blogs filled with correct spelling, and logically constructed sentences in every article you read, all year long. That's not only my dream, but the dream of the Society for the Promotion of Good Grammar as well, and they have teamed up with MSN Encarta to proclaim March 4 as National Grammar Day.
What do you do on National Grammar Day? According to the SPOGG website, "Speak well! Write well! And on March 4, march forth and spread the word. We want people to think about language and how it can be used best." If that isn't enough to capture your interest you can also make a Grammartini (the recipe is on the website) and laugh at the winner of the SPOGG Award for the Worst Grammar in the United States (the city of Columbia, South Carolina). The SPOGG Award for the Celebrity with the Worst Grammar in the U.S. went to George Bush, who beat out Paris Hilton and Courtney Love for the honor. Is anyone surprised?
Need more? Listen to their "Bad Grammar Hall of Fame Playlist, full of songs we love despite their bad grammar," buy a T-shirt, take a grammar quiz (I'm inordinately proud that I scored 10/10 despite my other penchant for playing fast and loose with my own grammar), join SPOGG, submit your ideas and photos and finally learn the difference between lay and lie. No lie.
In a final note, if you read the letter written by the second runner up for the Worst Grammar Award you will discover a word in the last paragraph that sent me to Google as fast as I could click. The thousands of entries for "publitical" almost made me wonder if the word truly exists. Rest easy, it doesn't, but if you think of "publicity" and "political" I think we might be on the brink of a new coined word. Who's with me?
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