You know how you can look at something five million times and yet miss a perfectly obvious detail until someone else points it out to you?
That's what I did with the the title of this children's classic. I could've sworn it was "Go Dog Go."
But when Rhys asked me what the comma was for, I suddenly realized there were not one, but three punctuation marks I'd been missing in the umpty-seven years since I became aware of the book's existence.
Yep. It's right there on the cover. "Go, Dog. Go!"
And Rhys can read it.
His first-ever Real Book as what he can Read All (-most) By Himself.
Go, Dah. Go!
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Rhys has the makings of a fine grammarian/punctuanist. So proud.
Posted by: Herm | December 11, 2006 at 12:00 PM
Um, I mean punctuationist. And his auntie is a mad misspeller of made-up words.
Posted by: Herm | December 11, 2006 at 12:01 PM
I think the word you're looking for is "punctuarian." Or perhaps "punct-rocker."
Posted by: RedMolly | December 11, 2006 at 12:02 PM
Or maybe just "puncter."
And why must the period go inside the quotation mark? No sense, no sense.
Posted by: Herm | December 11, 2006 at 12:58 PM
That was the first book I read, he's got good taste.
Posted by: Mimi | December 11, 2006 at 03:21 PM
Yeah Rhys! So smart, I wouldn't have, or, haven't caught that, in all the time I've been reading that book....
Posted by: summer | December 11, 2006 at 07:09 PM