Style Invitational Week

Low Marks

WINNER : Bob Dalton, Arlington


Week
... in which you were asked to come up with a new punctuation mark.

And the winner of the 45 rpm recording of Tammy Faye Bakker:

Parent-theticals: Used before and after a clause, this denotes Mom or Dad's contribution to homework. Ex: "Slavery was very bad [open parent-thetical] exemplified by President Lincoln's formulation of the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863 [close parent-thetical].

 
See the entire contest*
(until washingtonpost.com moves the link--AGAIN)

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