National Grammar Day is March 4

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(Free-Press-Release.com) February 26, 2010 -- For more information contact
Mignon Fogarty, Grammar Girl
National Grammar Day host
MignonFogarty@gmail.com

Martha Brockenbrough
Founder, National Grammar Day and the Society for the Promotion of Good Grammar
martha@marthabee.com
206-328-7374


NATIONAL GRAMMAR DAY 2010: HOSTED BY GRAMMAR GIRL
Word-nerd holiday features new theme song, Twitter parade, and original ‘grammarnoir’

March 4, 2010—The Society for the Promotion of Good Grammar is pleased to announce the third annual National Grammar Day on March 4, 2010.

National Grammar Day began in 2008 and is meant for people who love language in all its elegance and complexity, and for people and appreciate precise writing and speech that conforms to standards of grammar and punctuation. The holiday is also an excuse to drink a grammartini. Ahem.

This year, Mignon Fogarty—better known as Grammar Girl, and author of GRAMMAR GIRL'S QUICK AND DIRTY TIPS FOR BETTER WRITING—is the official host of the celebration, which will feature, for the first time:

- a rousing theme song, “March Forth!”;

- e-cards for grammar lovers; and
- a Twitter parade in which grammar myths are debunked and helpful tips delivered by dozens of experts (Grammar Girl is the grand marshal, of course).

Returning by popular demand is Pulp Diction, an original bit of grammarnoir by John McIntyre, former copy chief at the Baltimore Sun and now proprietor of the popular usage blog, You Don’t Say. McIntyre has been called “the Dave Brubeck of the art and craft of copyediting.”

In addition, more than three dozen participating grammar bloggers will share their favorite tips, tricks, and helpful hints—as well as their perspectives on the grammar rules that matter and the so-called rules that don’t.

The Society for the Promotion of Good Grammar was founded in 2004 by Martha Brockenbrough, author of THINGS THAT MAKE US [SIC] (St. Martin’s Press, 2008).

Links:

National Grammar Day official site: http://nationalgrammarday.com
Mignon Fogarty’s Grammar Girl site: http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/
The Society for the Promotion of Good Grammar: http://spogg.org
You Don’t Say by John McIntyre: http://johnemcintyre.blogspot.com

Grammar Girl’s Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing: http://www.quickanddirtytips.com/static/book.html

For additional information or to schedule interviews, please contact Martha Brockenbrough at Martha@Marthabee.com, or Mignon Fogarty at MignonFogarty@gmail.com.

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