National Punctuation Day

Jeff Rubin is a newsletter publisher and former reporter who got tired of seeing errors in the newspaper. So he created National Punctuation Day in 2004

Rubin wanted to help remind teachers and students that punctuation still matters even though people now days use Twitter and text messages that only use short phrases.

My mom told me about one of her favorite books called Eats, Shoots & Leaves. It talks about grammar and punctuation. The book cover has a picture of a panda with a gun. That's because of how "eats, shoots & leaves" is written. The comma makes it sound like the panda ate something, shot something and then left. It should actually say that the panda "eats shoots and leaves." That way it means that the panda eats bamboo shoots and bamboo leaves.

We found that they made an illustrated children's book. We found a video of someone reading the book. It's pretty funny how a simple comma can make such a difference in the meaning of a sentence.