[Edling] US: 4 March is National Grammar Day

[Francis Hult]

The Web of Language



On National Grammar Day, stop acting like the earth is flat



March 4th is National Grammar Day, time to remember that language, like the earth, IS NOT FLAT.



On National Grammar Day, it’s traditional to pick up a red marker and go forth (it’s March 4th, get it?) to correct other people’s grammar, deleting those unnecessary apostrophe’s and turning ‘10 items or less’ into ‘fewer’ at the grocery checkout. But that would be wrong. Because language, like the earth, is not flat.

In fact, grammar has very little to do with punctuation or with choosing between less and fewer, and more to do with describing how people use language when they speak and write.



Full story:
https://illinois.edu/blog/view/25/331805
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