National Grammar Day Tweeted Haiku

Here are all the entries for the 2012 contest.

  1. @EditorMark A word to the wise Is sufficient. Many words, Insufferable. #grammarday
  2. Without grammar, your haiku would fall to pieces. I think I’ll tweet that. #grammarday
  3. When I die comma/include in obit colon/Punctuation counts #grammarday
  4. Send not to ask for / whom the bell tolls. It tolls for / who still uses whom. #grammarday
  5. Apostrophe, the / days to come in your posses- / sion are contracting. #grammarday
  6. My grammar is poor/I know you're a lot better/Save my dignity #grammarday
  7. "It's" equals "it is"; "its" does not equal "it is"; Apple please fix this. #grammarday
  8. Traditional Japanese haiku in honor of #grammarday (markallenediting.com/2012/02/29/mar…): at, in, on, by, for / relating time or place / lakeshore pebbles
  9. Whose kneading grammer?// Knot me 'n dem.Theirs Gargle// Tweeter FB & sellphones. #grammarday
  10. An apostrophe/is merely a gentle stroke/why are you angry? #GRAMMARDAY bit.ly/xz6LQH
  11. Judge from OSU? / My UMich graduate son / um, may not approve. #grammarday #haiku
  12. The semicolon, That ironic punctuation. Yay hermaphrodites! #grammarday
  13. Pedants must be told / What they can go and stick their / Prepositions up #grammarday
  14. Possession? We're cool. / Pluralization? Step off. / Apostrophes, yo. #grammarday
  15. Let's eat Joe, I said / I realize now too late / I missed a comma #grammarday
  16. Belov'd semicolon/ Crown Prince of Punctuation/ So few understand #grammarday
  17. To elucidate // They're just not your cup of tea // You're not their saucer // #grammarday #myku
  18. Oh, Oxford Comma: / AP Style takes you away. / I miss you so much. #grammarday
  19. Fluid thoughts do sprout./Bloom into words on the page./Destined for pruning. #grammarday
  20. Dear Mr. Em Dash, / Quit showing off. Signed, Messrs. / En Dash & Hyphen #grammarday #haiku
  21. When some know the way,/ they're sure to reap their prize/ when they arrive there. #grammarday #Haiku
  22. Social media / Are a great way to display / That you know plurals. #GrammarDay
  23. One shall endeavor / to practically never split / one's infinitives #grammarday #haiku
  24. Autocorrected/ Text changes gunna to gunman/ And a school locks down. #grammarday
  25. I lament the loss/ of the serial comma, / mother and father #grammarday

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