Happy National Grammar Day!

We celebrate our love of language every year on March 4th because it is both a day and

an imperative sentence.

As in March 4th, and spread the love of good grammar, as in Go Forth, and spread the

love of good grammar.

But did you know we've only been celebrating National Grammar Day since 2008?

And we have author Martha Brock and Brow to thank for the holiday?

Martha was a writer for encarta.com and the editor in chief of MSN.com, and she also taught

high school, and that's where she got started on her own as a grammar guru in 2004,

with the founding of the Society for the Promotion of Good Grammar, with the hilarious abbreviation

SPAG, because she was looking for her way to make grammar more fun for her high school

students.

Membership was free, and she took on campaigns such as boycotting Bud Light until they fixed

a grammar error on a billboard, and she posted about grammar errors she and her members found

in the wild.

Then, in 2008, perhaps not coincidentally a few months before the publication of her

book, Things That Make Us Sick, spelled S.I.C. like the editor's note.

She finagled to get a letter from then-president George W. Bush sending best wishes for National

Grammar Day, and a holiday created by a woman with a knack for marketing to match her love

of grammar was born.

Martha continued to promote National Grammar Day until 2010, when she decided to commit

herself to writing fiction, something she has done fantastically well since then.

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