- We'll update this Storify occasionally, and more often as we approach the deadline of noon March 3. Winners will be announced on Tuesday, March 4, National Grammar Day. For details of the contest, see the ACES blog at copydesk.org. Yes, the first one is by one of the judges. She can't win. But what are you going to do?
Words flow like rivers / syllables flooding our minds / grammar provides structure. #ACESchat #GrammarDay- These were submitted on Feb. 19, the day we announced the contest on an #ACESchat on Twitter:
@copyeditors @EditorMark "Septentrional": polar antithesis of "meridional." #GrammarDay #ACESchat #ConanTheGrammarianHasSpoku
Your editor knows / things about you your mother / never suspected. #ACESchat #grammarday
My corporate office / says "edit this, thanks" and then / disregards it all. #ACESchat #GrammarDay
Good editors / Can finish a haiku / With room to spare. #ACESchat #grammarday (repeating for hashtag)- You all are aware / The correct name of this form / Is "senryu," right? Right? #ACESchat #grammarday
Your words are sunlight ~ proper grammar acts like a ~ freshly washed window #grammarday #ACESchat
"Eh, forget this man"/will leave some poor guy lonely/"Eh, forget this, man" #ACESchat #grammarday- #Grammarday calls for haiku ~ but I have a limerick for you ~ To compose a rhyme ~ takes somewhat more time ~ but shows what an edit can do.
- Exclamation points/Like salt on mashed potatoes/please use sparingly #grammarday
- It is not 'sneak peak'/Sneaking a mountain is hard/Please, please write 'sneak peek'#grammarday
I love the language so please stop smothering it under zombie rules. #grammarday
Between you and I Grammar ain't but what we do. (Bet you understood.) #grammarday
Wow. Very poem. Amaze syllabifying. Because #grammarday.
Words, like spring blossoms, Bloom, grow, die — because progress. Peevers: Twerk it out. #GrammarDay- Yes, “ain’t” is a word. Look it up in Webster’s Third. Your peeve is absurd. #grammarday
- Heinz: “Where there’s happy.” @harrys: “Less expensiver.” Branding weirds language. #grammarday
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ACES National Grammar Day Tweeted Haiku Contest
Below are all the entries for the National Grammar Day Tweeted Haiku Contest, sponsored by the American Copy Editors Society.
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