National Punctuation Day -- unanticipated here?

[Arnold M. Zwicky]

On Sep 25, 2008, at 5:23 AM, Joel S. Berson wrote:

> Apparently genealogists have some interest.  From today's electronic
> newsletter of the NEHGS (much abridged):
>
> Today is the fifth annual National Punctuation Day...

noted on Language Log by Roger Shuy:

   http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=631

i noted it last year:

   http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/004958.html

and Mark Liberman noted it in 2006:

   http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/003615.html

arnold

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