The Gift of Grammar

If you’re looking for the perfect gift for the grammar nerd in your life, check out James Harbeck’s Songs of Love and Grammar. This little gem was published in 2012, but I just discovered it today. Here’s a sample:

I met a buxom grammatician

and said I’d like her out to take;

back she came with proposition:

in let’s stay and out let’s make…

Someone on Amazon described it as Fifty Shades for the grammaratti. I don’t know. I think this book will have me chuckling, not upchucking.

Sorry, Fifty Shades. That was mean. If I want Santa to drop this book into my stocking, I better try harder to stay on his nice list.

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