National Grammar Day is Here!
What will you be doing on Friday? How will
you have spent your day? Do you have trouble understanding these
questions? Then you should mark your calendar!
Language teachers, learners and other
professionals across the United States are celebrating National Grammar
Day on March 4. The holiday celebrates the rules and best practices for
the English language.
Martha Brockenbrough created National
Grammar Day in 2008. Brockenbrough is the founder of the Society for the
Promotion of Good Grammar, or SPOGG. SPOGG operates a website where
Brockenbrough writes about different language issues.
Brockenbrough also wrote a book of advice about grammar and language called “Things That Make Us [Sic.]”
Mignon Fogarty is organizing National
Grammar Day celebrations this year. She wrote the book “Grammar Girl’s
Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing.”
Fogarty appeared on the NBC television
program “Today” on Wednesday. She discussed new additions to the English
language. “People think that dictionaries choose [new] words because
they’re proper,” she said. “But mostly they choose words because people
use them.”
The American Dialect Society chooses a word
every year that is new or used in a new way. The choice for 2015 Word
of the Year was “they,” used as a gender-neutral singular pronoun.
The Oxford English Dictionary adds new
words after finding evidence people are using the words often.
Researchers for the dictionary also look for evidence the words will be
used well into the future.
Grammarly is a software application, or
app, that can study writing and find grammar mistakes. In preparation
for National Grammar Day, Grammarly studied the writing on the Twitter
accounts of the 50 people with the most followers in the world.
Grammarly counted the average number of
mistakes in the writing on all 50 twitter accounts. The app then listed
the top 10 accounts with the fewest mistakes.
Comedian Conan O’Brien had the best
grammar. He averaged 0.21 mistakes for every 100 words he wrote.
Businessman Bill Gates had the second best grammar, with an average of
0.22 mistakes.President Barack Obama came third with an average of 0.26
mistakes.
The National Grammar Day website has many
resources for language learners. You can celebrate National Grammar Day
by reading their weekly series “Everyday Grammar.”
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