Playful Grammarians Mugs

'I made a good grade in creative writing, but I didn't do very well in creative spelling.'

My Bookshelf Before the Internet

I will study my speling words...

"Whenever he shows up everything turns to crap!"

'Why can't we have a texting bee?'

Someone who knows apostrophes

'What amazes me most is that years ago I couldn't even spell teacher - now I are one!'

Smith Academy. A Tradition of Excellense.

"I know its hard to believe right now, Lawrence, but some day you'll thank me for asking you to punctuate your sentences correctly."

"Nuts to you, too."

"Sorry I'm late. I overslept." "Is that even a real word?"

'The definition of OBSOLETE: old fashioned dictionaries.'

"Let's fall in love and live in the subjunctive."

Lessons in Prehistory.

"So, hw ws yr smmr?"

Contemporary English Lesson: The Cat was Sat on the Mat.

"You can use the alphabet to text. You can use the alphabet to tweet. Why can't you use the alphabet to spell?"

"I'm eating baklava through my balaclava!"

"I stand corrected."

"You have no idea what it's like to be a 'just between you and me' person in a 'just between you and I' world."

Harv's general clumsiness with prepositions comes back to haunt him.

"I've just invented the question mark."

Sometimes Y Turn

"Today I came across antiderenuclearizationalityness."

'Come on Jill, they say the water's well good.'

'It's a zen diaphragm.'

A child as a pet substitute.

Ironing Punctuation

The First Sentence Fragment: 'Hey, don't -'

"We're developing a plan to fix this."

THE REPORT: Some of this is brilliant, but that can be fixed.

'Do it write the first time.'