A grammar-fanatic would gripe
To his wife about language, and snipe:
“Your syntax is bad!”
She’d respond, really mad:
“I’ll divorce you if down you don’t pipe.”
#GrammarDay #Grammar #Humor #Humour #Limerick #Limericks #Rhyme #Humor #Humour #LightVerse #Poetry #MicroPoetry #PoetryCommunity
To his wife about language, and snipe:
“Your syntax is bad!”
She’d respond, really mad:
“I’ll divorce you if down you don’t pipe.”
#GrammarDay #Grammar #Humor #Humour #Limerick #Limericks #Rhyme #Humor #Humour #LightVerse #Poetry #MicroPoetry #PoetryCommunity
March 4, 2025 at 5:29 PM
A grammar-fanatic would gripe
To his wife about language, and snipe:
“Your syntax is bad!”
She’d respond, really mad:
“I’ll divorce you if down you don’t pipe.”
#GrammarDay #Grammar #Humor #Humour #Limerick #Limericks #Rhyme #Humor #Humour #LightVerse #Poetry #MicroPoetry #PoetryCommunity
To his wife about language, and snipe:
“Your syntax is bad!”
She’d respond, really mad:
“I’ll divorce you if down you don’t pipe.”
#GrammarDay #Grammar #Humor #Humour #Limerick #Limericks #Rhyme #Humor #Humour #LightVerse #Poetry #MicroPoetry #PoetryCommunity
ACES National Grammar Day Poetry Contest winners: All the poems that fit. 4th place: Joseph Stitt
screaming in horror,
the misplaced modifier
frightens me awake
#GrammarDay tinyurl.com/bvbrv3t4
screaming in horror,
the misplaced modifier
frightens me awake
#GrammarDay tinyurl.com/bvbrv3t4
March 4, 2025 at 4:13 PM
ACES National Grammar Day Poetry Contest winners: All the poems that fit. 4th place: Joseph Stitt
screaming in horror,
the misplaced modifier
frightens me awake
#GrammarDay tinyurl.com/bvbrv3t4
screaming in horror,
the misplaced modifier
frightens me awake
#GrammarDay tinyurl.com/bvbrv3t4
It’s National Grammar Day. Wow!
Is syntax important? And how!
Though the rules may confuse,
You should never abuse
Our great language. So rules them learn now!!!
#GrammarDay #Grammar #Humor #Humour #Limerick #Limericks #Rhyme #Humor #Humour #LightVerse #Poetry #MicroPoetry #PoetryCommunity
Is syntax important? And how!
Though the rules may confuse,
You should never abuse
Our great language. So rules them learn now!!!
#GrammarDay #Grammar #Humor #Humour #Limerick #Limericks #Rhyme #Humor #Humour #LightVerse #Poetry #MicroPoetry #PoetryCommunity
March 4, 2025 at 5:29 PM
It’s National Grammar Day. Wow!
Is syntax important? And how!
Though the rules may confuse,
You should never abuse
Our great language. So rules them learn now!!!
#GrammarDay #Grammar #Humor #Humour #Limerick #Limericks #Rhyme #Humor #Humour #LightVerse #Poetry #MicroPoetry #PoetryCommunity
Is syntax important? And how!
Though the rules may confuse,
You should never abuse
Our great language. So rules them learn now!!!
#GrammarDay #Grammar #Humor #Humour #Limerick #Limericks #Rhyme #Humor #Humour #LightVerse #Poetry #MicroPoetry #PoetryCommunity
John keeps up his nine-year tradition of posting a Grammar Noir story on National #GrammarDay.
This time, it's journalism that has died.
This time, it's journalism that has died.
On National Grammar Day, a new Grammar Noir episode.
johnemcintyre.blogspot.com/2025/03/all-...
johnemcintyre.blogspot.com/2025/03/all-...
All the news that prints to fit, a Grammar Noir episode
I was back at work, part-time, at the Clarion Bugle , just a few hours a week. Yeah, I quit the paragraph game, but it's bourbon money. I s...
johnemcintyre.blogspot.com
March 4, 2025 at 8:57 PM
John keeps up his nine-year tradition of posting a Grammar Noir story on National #GrammarDay.
This time, it's journalism that has died.
This time, it's journalism that has died.
ACES National Grammar Day Poetry Contest winners: All the poems that fit. 5th place (3-way tie): Martha Raffaele
Divisions abound.
Will subject-verb agreement
Also elude us?
#GrammarDay tinyurl.com/bvbrv3t4
Divisions abound.
Will subject-verb agreement
Also elude us?
#GrammarDay tinyurl.com/bvbrv3t4
March 4, 2025 at 4:15 PM
ACES National Grammar Day Poetry Contest winners: All the poems that fit. 5th place (3-way tie): Martha Raffaele
Divisions abound.
Will subject-verb agreement
Also elude us?
#GrammarDay tinyurl.com/bvbrv3t4
Divisions abound.
Will subject-verb agreement
Also elude us?
#GrammarDay tinyurl.com/bvbrv3t4
Two weeks to #GrammarDay, the best day of the year (except for Blue Bic Pen Day). That means it’s time for grammar poetry!
When I eat my dog
Acts like I’ve abandoned him
On some garden path.
#ACES #haiku
When I eat my dog
Acts like I’ve abandoned him
On some garden path.
#ACES #haiku
February 19, 2025 at 3:15 AM
Two weeks to #GrammarDay, the best day of the year (except for Blue Bic Pen Day). That means it’s time for grammar poetry!
When I eat my dog
Acts like I’ve abandoned him
On some garden path.
#ACES #haiku
When I eat my dog
Acts like I’ve abandoned him
On some garden path.
#ACES #haiku
ACES National Grammar Day Poetry Contest. 2nd place: Andy Hollandbeck
I don't mean to seem confrontational
About use of the marks punctuational,
But commas, you snarks,
Go inside the quote marks
When you're dealing with copy quotational.
#GrammarDay tinyurl.com/bvbrv3t4
I don't mean to seem confrontational
About use of the marks punctuational,
But commas, you snarks,
Go inside the quote marks
When you're dealing with copy quotational.
#GrammarDay tinyurl.com/bvbrv3t4
March 4, 2025 at 4:11 PM
ACES National Grammar Day Poetry Contest. 2nd place: Andy Hollandbeck
I don't mean to seem confrontational
About use of the marks punctuational,
But commas, you snarks,
Go inside the quote marks
When you're dealing with copy quotational.
#GrammarDay tinyurl.com/bvbrv3t4
I don't mean to seem confrontational
About use of the marks punctuational,
But commas, you snarks,
Go inside the quote marks
When you're dealing with copy quotational.
#GrammarDay tinyurl.com/bvbrv3t4
When you #punctuate, please don’t be rash.
Over-use can turn prose into ash.
And a #comma misplaced
Lays your writing to waste.
Mark my words … or your readers shall dash.
#GrammarDay #Punctuation #Grammar #Humor #Humour #Limerick #Limericks #Rhyme #Humor #Humour #LightVerse #Poetry #MicroPoetry
Over-use can turn prose into ash.
And a #comma misplaced
Lays your writing to waste.
Mark my words … or your readers shall dash.
#GrammarDay #Punctuation #Grammar #Humor #Humour #Limerick #Limericks #Rhyme #Humor #Humour #LightVerse #Poetry #MicroPoetry
March 4, 2025 at 10:52 PM
When you #punctuate, please don’t be rash.
Over-use can turn prose into ash.
And a #comma misplaced
Lays your writing to waste.
Mark my words … or your readers shall dash.
#GrammarDay #Punctuation #Grammar #Humor #Humour #Limerick #Limericks #Rhyme #Humor #Humour #LightVerse #Poetry #MicroPoetry
Over-use can turn prose into ash.
And a #comma misplaced
Lays your writing to waste.
Mark my words … or your readers shall dash.
#GrammarDay #Punctuation #Grammar #Humor #Humour #Limerick #Limericks #Rhyme #Humor #Humour #LightVerse #Poetry #MicroPoetry
@acesediting.bsky.social, challenge accepted: a haiku for National Grammar Day, dedicated to my favorite copy editing pet peeve.
"Use the comma splice
at your peril, however
periods are good."
#ACES #GrammarDay
"Use the comma splice
at your peril, however
periods are good."
#ACES #GrammarDay
February 19, 2025 at 2:58 PM
@acesediting.bsky.social, challenge accepted: a haiku for National Grammar Day, dedicated to my favorite copy editing pet peeve.
"Use the comma splice
at your peril, however
periods are good."
#ACES #GrammarDay
"Use the comma splice
at your peril, however
periods are good."
#ACES #GrammarDay
Happy National Grammar Day!
I have a bevy of delights for you on the NGD website: entertainment, resources, a grammartini recipe, and more!
www.quickanddirtytips.com/national-gra...
#GrammarDay
I have a bevy of delights for you on the NGD website: entertainment, resources, a grammartini recipe, and more!
www.quickanddirtytips.com/national-gra...
#GrammarDay
March 4, 2024 at 3:33 PM
Happy National Grammar Day!
I have a bevy of delights for you on the NGD website: entertainment, resources, a grammartini recipe, and more!
www.quickanddirtytips.com/national-gra...
#GrammarDay
I have a bevy of delights for you on the NGD website: entertainment, resources, a grammartini recipe, and more!
www.quickanddirtytips.com/national-gra...
#GrammarDay
Long flight today offered plenty of time to think about #GrammarDay poetry for the #ACES contest. Here’s a confession haiku:
“Lain” stresses me out.
I’m way past tense at this point.
NGL about that.
“Lain” stresses me out.
I’m way past tense at this point.
NGL about that.
February 21, 2025 at 2:12 AM
Long flight today offered plenty of time to think about #GrammarDay poetry for the #ACES contest. Here’s a confession haiku:
“Lain” stresses me out.
I’m way past tense at this point.
NGL about that.
“Lain” stresses me out.
I’m way past tense at this point.
NGL about that.
ACES National Grammar Day Poetry Contest winners: All the poems that fit. 5th place (3-way tie): John A. Mathews
I thought the sign read
“Haiku Club” not “Hiking Club.”
We walked for hours. Hours.
#GrammarDay tinyurl.com/bvbrv3t4
I thought the sign read
“Haiku Club” not “Hiking Club.”
We walked for hours. Hours.
#GrammarDay tinyurl.com/bvbrv3t4
Announcing the winner of the 2025 National Grammar Day Poetry Contest
tinyurl.com
March 4, 2025 at 4:14 PM
ACES National Grammar Day Poetry Contest winners: All the poems that fit. 5th place (3-way tie): John A. Mathews
I thought the sign read
“Haiku Club” not “Hiking Club.”
We walked for hours. Hours.
#GrammarDay tinyurl.com/bvbrv3t4
I thought the sign read
“Haiku Club” not “Hiking Club.”
We walked for hours. Hours.
#GrammarDay tinyurl.com/bvbrv3t4
The first-place winner of the ACES National Grammar Day Poetry Contest: Salma Amanda Latifa for "Language in Order" about structural elements of English — which is not her first language. Meet the poet and read her poem and the runners up. tinyurl.com/bvbrv3t4 #GrammarDay @grammargirl.bsky.social
Announcing the winner of the 2025 National Grammar Day Poetry Contest
aceseditors.org
March 4, 2025 at 3:05 PM
The first-place winner of the ACES National Grammar Day Poetry Contest: Salma Amanda Latifa for "Language in Order" about structural elements of English — which is not her first language. Meet the poet and read her poem and the runners up. tinyurl.com/bvbrv3t4 #GrammarDay @grammargirl.bsky.social
Want to see a builder frown?
Ask if cement is a concrete noun.
#ACES #GrammarDay
(Don’t @ me. I know the difference.)
Ask if cement is a concrete noun.
#ACES #GrammarDay
(Don’t @ me. I know the difference.)
February 19, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Want to see a builder frown?
Ask if cement is a concrete noun.
#ACES #GrammarDay
(Don’t @ me. I know the difference.)
Ask if cement is a concrete noun.
#ACES #GrammarDay
(Don’t @ me. I know the difference.)
March 2, 2024 at 10:00 PM
#ACES #GrammarDay
There once was a guy from Syosset
Wanted to copyedit but lost it
Fully pedantic he was
They called him the Rule Fuzz
Stet, mutha****er, stet.
(Yes, the rhyme scheme is subpar. That's because I'm a copyeditor, not a poet.)
There once was a guy from Syosset
Wanted to copyedit but lost it
Fully pedantic he was
They called him the Rule Fuzz
Stet, mutha****er, stet.
(Yes, the rhyme scheme is subpar. That's because I'm a copyeditor, not a poet.)
The ACES National Grammar Day poetry contest is now accepting entries!
You have until the end of the day on Feb. 28 to submit your limerick, haiku, or other poem about LANGUAGE. 🧵
You have until the end of the day on Feb. 28 to submit your limerick, haiku, or other poem about LANGUAGE. 🧵
aceseditors.org
February 19, 2025 at 6:38 PM
#ACES #GrammarDay
There once was a guy from Syosset
Wanted to copyedit but lost it
Fully pedantic he was
They called him the Rule Fuzz
Stet, mutha****er, stet.
(Yes, the rhyme scheme is subpar. That's because I'm a copyeditor, not a poet.)
There once was a guy from Syosset
Wanted to copyedit but lost it
Fully pedantic he was
They called him the Rule Fuzz
Stet, mutha****er, stet.
(Yes, the rhyme scheme is subpar. That's because I'm a copyeditor, not a poet.)
Wow, I'm blown away to learn that English isn't the first language of the poet who won the National #GrammarDay poetry contest!
As one of the judges, I can tell you the competition was fierce. If you want to roll around in some fabulous language, check out the winning poem and runners-up.
As one of the judges, I can tell you the competition was fierce. If you want to roll around in some fabulous language, check out the winning poem and runners-up.
The first-place winner of the ACES National Grammar Day Poetry Contest: Salma Amanda Latifa for "Language in Order" about structural elements of English — which is not her first language. Meet the poet and read her poem and the runners up. tinyurl.com/bvbrv3t4 #GrammarDay @grammargirl.bsky.social
Announcing the winner of the 2025 National Grammar Day Poetry Contest
aceseditors.org
March 4, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Wow, I'm blown away to learn that English isn't the first language of the poet who won the National #GrammarDay poetry contest!
As one of the judges, I can tell you the competition was fierce. If you want to roll around in some fabulous language, check out the winning poem and runners-up.
As one of the judges, I can tell you the competition was fierce. If you want to roll around in some fabulous language, check out the winning poem and runners-up.
In case you missed it yesterday. #GrammarDay #MarchForth
The first-place winner of the ACES National Grammar Day Poetry Contest: Salma Amanda Latifa for "Language in Order" about structural elements of English — which is not her first language. Meet the poet and read her poem and the runners up. tinyurl.com/bvbrv3t4 #GrammarDay @grammargirl.bsky.social
Announcing the winner of the 2025 National Grammar Day Poetry Contest
aceseditors.org
March 5, 2025 at 6:09 PM
In case you missed it yesterday. #GrammarDay #MarchForth
Congratulations to Leslie F Miller, fuquinay.com, who has won ACES' 14th annual poetry contest in honor of #GrammarDay. Read her poem and the other top nine at aceseditors.org/news/2024/re... . Long live Hamlet!
March 4, 2024 at 8:58 PM
Congratulations to Leslie F Miller, fuquinay.com, who has won ACES' 14th annual poetry contest in honor of #GrammarDay. Read her poem and the other top nine at aceseditors.org/news/2024/re... . Long live Hamlet!
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March 4, 2026 at 2:53 PM
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Kids say the darndest things—and some of them show that they know a lot more about the rules of language than we thought they did. #GrammarDay
10 Language Mistakes Kids Make That Are Actually Pretty Smart
Kids say the darndest things—and some of them show that they know a lot more about the rules of language than we thought they did.
trib.al
March 4, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Kids say the darndest things—and some of them show that they know a lot more about the rules of language than we thought they did. #GrammarDay
The OED has "bevy" as a drink of beer from 1889.
The origin of "bevy" as a group or collection is unknown, but some people think it could also come from drinking — the meaning evolving from a drinking party to just a party or collection.
So the grammartini recipe in our #GrammarDay bevy is apt!
The origin of "bevy" as a group or collection is unknown, but some people think it could also come from drinking — the meaning evolving from a drinking party to just a party or collection.
So the grammartini recipe in our #GrammarDay bevy is apt!
March 4, 2024 at 3:36 PM
The OED has "bevy" as a drink of beer from 1889.
The origin of "bevy" as a group or collection is unknown, but some people think it could also come from drinking — the meaning evolving from a drinking party to just a party or collection.
So the grammartini recipe in our #GrammarDay bevy is apt!
The origin of "bevy" as a group or collection is unknown, but some people think it could also come from drinking — the meaning evolving from a drinking party to just a party or collection.
So the grammartini recipe in our #GrammarDay bevy is apt!
Happy National #GrammarDay!
Our website includes guidance on
🔹 avoiding anthropomorphism
🔹 creating parallel sentence structures
🔹 active and passive voice (both permitted)
🔹 using first-person pronouns
🔹 singular “they”
🔹 and more!
🔗 https://apastyle.apa.org/style-grammar-guidelines/grammar
Our website includes guidance on
🔹 avoiding anthropomorphism
🔹 creating parallel sentence structures
🔹 active and passive voice (both permitted)
🔹 using first-person pronouns
🔹 singular “they”
🔹 and more!
🔗 https://apastyle.apa.org/style-grammar-guidelines/grammar
Grammar
The grammar and usage guidelines in the Publication Manual represent only the most common areas of concern for writers--verbs, pronouns, and sentence construction.
apastyle.apa.org
March 4, 2026 at 2:02 PM
Happy National #GrammarDay!
Our website includes guidance on
🔹 avoiding anthropomorphism
🔹 creating parallel sentence structures
🔹 active and passive voice (both permitted)
🔹 using first-person pronouns
🔹 singular “they”
🔹 and more!
🔗 https://apastyle.apa.org/style-grammar-guidelines/grammar
Our website includes guidance on
🔹 avoiding anthropomorphism
🔹 creating parallel sentence structures
🔹 active and passive voice (both permitted)
🔹 using first-person pronouns
🔹 singular “they”
🔹 and more!
🔗 https://apastyle.apa.org/style-grammar-guidelines/grammar
Grammar
The grammar and usage guidelines in the Publication Manual represent only the most common areas of concern for writers--verbs, pronouns, and sentence construction.
apastyle.apa.org
March 4, 2026 at 2:00 PM
Happy National #GrammarDay!
Our website includes guidance on
🔹 avoiding anthropomorphism
🔹 creating parallel sentence structures
🔹 active and passive voice (both permitted)
🔹 using first-person pronouns
🔹 singular “they”
🔹 and more!
🔗 https://apastyle.apa.org/style-grammar-guidelines/grammar
Our website includes guidance on
🔹 avoiding anthropomorphism
🔹 creating parallel sentence structures
🔹 active and passive voice (both permitted)
🔹 using first-person pronouns
🔹 singular “they”
🔹 and more!
🔗 https://apastyle.apa.org/style-grammar-guidelines/grammar