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Happy National Punctuation Day (Limerick)

Happy National Punctuation Day (Limerick)
By Madeleine Begun Kane

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.

(National Punctuation Day is celebrated yearly on September 24th.)

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4 Responses to “Happy National Punctuation Day (Limerick)”

  1. Bone says:
    September 24, 2013 at 6:15 pm

    Nice one!

    I propose more semi-colons for everyone!

  2. z. alexi says:
    September 29, 2013 at 1:33 pm

    I substitute dashes for commas [which have many uses but dashes have but one]. I once saw “virgule” on a test…just another word for “slash,” e.g., “I’m an actress virgule waitress” [actor/wait person?]. Hah!

  3. madkane says:
    October 7, 2013 at 11:25 pm

    Thanks for your comments!

  4. Loredana Donovan says:
    October 8, 2013 at 9:01 am

    I love your grammatical humor! :)