Two days ago it was Left Handers Day.
One day last week, (and being a dog lover I don't remember exactly which day it was), there was a day called National Cat Day.
I really must pay more attention. Today we are supposed to celebrate one of our "most useful, yet sadly misused, punctuation marks".
Exactly how do you celebrate a punctuation mark?
I suppose hugging a cat on National Cat Day would be a good way to celebrate that. Although Rusty might not be too pleased. And hugging a left hander would be easy in my family, as there are several of them.
But I'm at a loss as to what to do with an apostrophe!
On further investigation, I even found a Apostrophe Protection Society, who dedicate their lives to the correct use of apostrophes. The results of a survey they conducted showed that the apostrophe was the punctuation mark that caused the most frustration for people in the UK. Seriously? How can such a little squiggle cause so much frustration? Anyway, in light of that, they have even devised a 13 question quiz to see if you know your shit from you're shit. (Sorry couldn't resist that one!!) I didn't take the quiz.
But here's somebody who should:
Arianna Huffington (Huffington Post) even dedicated a whole column to the Apostrophe and it's misuse. I got confused reading it.
Anyway, instead of being frustrated by people's (Hmmm.... is that apostrophe in the right place???) lack of understanding and misuse of the great Apostrophe, I'm going to celebrate it's use with coffee and chocolate. Or maybe I'll make that chocolates (without the apostrophe)...
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