C. Munzenmaier • Hamilton College • Urbandale, IA

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Grammar Humor

Some grammar jokes are bloopers like this request in a church bulletin: "Remember in prayer the many who are sick of our church and community."

Others come from people like Richard Lederer, a self-described "wordaholic" who collects—and creates—examples of Anguished English.

• Grammar Jokes
• Tongue-in-Cheek Guides to Writing
• Games and Wordplay
• Horrible Examples
• Parts of Speech

Grammar Jokes

• Eats, Shoots and Leaves
• Grammarians Are SUCH a Hoot!
• "Ode to a Spell-Checker" (easy)
• "Ode to a Spell-Checker" (challenging)
• "Candidate for a Pullet Surprise"
  (or "An Owed to the Spelling Checker")
• Abused Apostrophes
• Gallery of "Misused" Quotation Marks
• "Dear John" Letter

Tongue-in-Cheek Guides to Writing

• Fifty Rules for Writing Good
• Rules for Writing Wicked Good Papers

Games and Word Play

• Dr. Grammar—Fun with Words
• Richard Lederer's Verbivore

Horrible Examples

• Eggcorn Gallery (misused words—you can slide down a chute, but not a shoot)
• The SAGP (Self-Appointed Grammar Police) Casebook
• Grammatically Incorrect (review of Microsoft's grammar checker)
• A Demonstration of the Futility of Using Microsoft Word's Spelling and Grammar Checker (Krishnamurthy)

Parts of Speech

• "The Grammar Lesson" (a poem by Steve Kowit)