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Website & Contest: 10 Websites and Blogs of Punctuation Protectors

10 Websites and Blogs of Punctuation Protectors

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Posted: 23 Sep 2011 09:58 PM PDT

In honor of National Punctuation Day, commemorated on September 24 (you didn’t forget, did you?), here’s a directory of Web sites documenting, usually with photographs, egregious punctuation errors.

First, by the way, note that the founder of National Punctuation Day, a freelance business-newsletter writer named Jeff Rubin, sponsors a Punctuation Paragraph Contest. The only rule is that you must write one paragraph, maximum of three sentences, using these punctuation marks:

apostrophe, brackets, colon, comma, dash, ellipsis, exclamation point, hyphen, parentheses, period, question mark, quotation mark, and semicolon.

(You may use a punctuation mark more than once.) Send your entry to the email address at Rubin’s Web site http://www.nationalpunctuationday.com/ by September 30, 2011.

*1.* Apostrophe Abuse http://www.apostropheabuse.com/

Tagline: Links and visuals illustrating an orthographic pet peeve.

*2.* Apostrophe Catastrophes http://www.apostrophecatastrophes.com/

Tagline: The Worlds’ Worst. Punctuation;

*3.* The Apostrophe Protection Society http://www.apostrophe.org.uk/examples

Tagline: Examples of misuse of the apostrophe as seen by you!

*4.* The “Blog” of “Unnecessary” Quotation Marks http://www.unnecessaryquotes.com/

Tagline: none

*5.* English Fail Blog http://www.englishfailblog.com/

Tagline: Public Butcherings of the English Language

*6.* The Gallery Of “Misused” Quotation Marks http://www.juvalamu.com/qmarks

Tagline: none