Jenny's Noodle

Image credit: Royston Robertson

September 24 is National Punctuation Day! Today we celebrate you—apostrophe, brackets, colon, comma, dash, ellipsis, exclamation mark, period, hyphen, question mark, quotation mark and semicolon!!! And we can't forget the esoteric interrobang and expostrophe!!!

National Punctuation Day was created in 2004 by Californian Jeff Rubin, as "a celebration of the lowly comma, correctly used quotation marks, and other proper uses of periods, semicolons, and the ever-mysterious ellipsis."

Here are a few ways to "mark" this occasion:
• Join the Facebook group the "Society Against the Overuse of Exclamation Marks (!)"
• Read The Great Typo Hunt
• Buy these or wear these

punc·tu·a·tion
Part of Speech: n
Definition: the practice or system of using certain conventional marks or characters in writing or printing in order to separate elements and make the meaning clear, as in ending a sentence or separating clauses.
Pronunciation: [puhngk-choo-ey-shuhn]
Etymology: 1539, "pointing of the psalms," from Latin punctuationem (nom. punctuatio) "a marking with points," from punctuatus, pp. of punctuare "to mark with points or dots," from L. punctus "a prick" (see point).
(source)