National Punctuation Day -- unanticipated here?

[Joel S. Berson]

At 9/25/2008 09:07 AM, Arnold M. Zwicky wrote:
>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


Ah -- but we missed it the first two years, then?  :-)

Joel

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