SPOGG on MSNBC

We're quoted today in a story about grammar snobs being pushed over the edge by these trying times. We think we sound safely on the solid side of the abyss, but you never know. We almost typed "crying times" instead of "trying times." Think we should go take a nap?

SPOGG, III

Members of the Surreptitious People Out Gathering Gaffes send us this unintentionally hilarious movie marquee:

Ocean's 13
Pirates
Knocked Up
Mr. Brooks

It's not ungrammatical, but it sure is funny -- except for poor Mr. Brooks, of course.

SPOGG Has a Second Name

From Fuse #8:

If I were to name SPOGG I might call it the Social Philanthropic Order of the Gentle Grammarians.

From this day forth, we shall be known as the Society for the Promotion of Good Grammar, and/or the Social Philanthropic Order of the Gentle Grammarians. We will happily consider additional names based on our acronym.

Read the whole blog post here, written because they appreciated our defense of Junie B. Jones.

Grammar: in Vogue

Please pardon our lack of posts lately. Blogger's beta is unfriendly to our template and has been giving us the temper fits.

And now back to our irregularly scheduled updates, minus the pictures, which we can't make work at all.

Teaching grammar, apparently, is back in vogue. Or so says the Washington Post, and also the author of this column.

As with all trends, SPOGG is on the cutting edge. We just celebrated our second birthday, and have more than 3,000 members worldwide.

If you don't have your SPOGG membership card yet, what are you waiting for? You can download your very own print-and-clip card here.

Love,

SPOGG