Gramer Girl here.

I'm Minyeon Fogarty and it's that time of year again, National Grammar Day.

Yes, March 4th is almost here.

And in what has become a National Grammar Day tradition, grammar lovers have been using

Twitter to submit their entries in the annual National Grammar Day High-Cute Contest

using the hashtag Grammar Day.

Actually, like this podcast, the high-cute cover not only grammar, but also word usage,

punctuation, pronunciation, and writing style.

And that's okay, we cast a wide net here.

And everything that's both interesting and language-related is fair game.

This year, though, I'd like to invite you to work with another form of short poetry

called the Double Dactyl.

To understand what a Double Dactyl is, you're first need to know what a Dactyl is.

It's not an extinct flying reptile.

That's a Tera Dactyl.

However, if you translate the Greek roots that make up Tera Dactyl, you get winged finger.

So Dactyl means finger, but what fingers have to do with poetry?

True, you do use your fingers to write poetry, but that's true of poetry in general.

The more relevant answer is that a Dactyl is a sequence of three syllables, a stressed

syllable, followed by two unstressed syllables.

For example, the word holiday is a Dactyl, as are Genesis and poetry.

Are you getting the rhythm?

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