Take this punctuation quiz to find out whether you are a teac'hers pet, a teachers pet or a teacher's pet.
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Ha! I got everything right on this quiz! Well, everything that didn't require me to think like a Brit. IOW, I missed three: the Oxford Dictionary question, the Shakespeare question, and the one where the Brits do it differently than Us Amuhricans.
Posted by: Eric | December 04, 2003 at 10:02 PM
Congratulations!
I had never heard of a "Greengrocer's Apostrophe." Oh, those Brits - what will they think of next?
Posted by: George | December 05, 2003 at 03:21 PM
I got the wrong idea on Number 2, as I counted each pair of quotation marks as only one mistake. But, I think they accidently counted capitalization mistakes in that question as well, as I only counted 10 and could not find the other two, even when the right answer was given.
Posted by: Bert9785 | December 10, 2003 at 03:37 PM