National Grammar Day 2016: 24 Jokes, Funny Memes To Celebrate Language

Friday is National Grammar Day, an unofficial annual celebration of language and good writing. Teachers, students, authors and editors observe the holiday every March 4 in the United States.

It's a good-natured observance where people share tips about how to improve grammar and jokes about those who struggle. Even the date itself is a grammar joke. "It’s an imperative: March forth on March 4 to speak well, write well and help others do the same," according to the Examiner.

Writing Forward suggests spending your National Grammar Day by looking up grammar tips, browsing themed e-cards or checking out some famous typos.

"It should be a lighthearted day of exploring and learning," Mignon Fogarty, who wrote "Grammar Girl's Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing," told the Chicago Tribune in 2012. "It's a day to get everyone thinking about language and all its quirks and frustrations and fascinations."

On National Grammar Day 2016, check out a few of the internet's best language jokes, collected from Grammarly, GoodReads and Alpha Dictionary, the last of which includes phrases from Paul Ogden, Doris Britt and Reba Prater:

What’s another name for Santa’s elves? Subordinate Clauses.

To write with a broken pencil is pointless.

I tried to catch some fog. I mist.

“The rule is: Don’t use commas like a stupid person. I mean it.” ― Lynne Truss

A bicycle can't stand alone; it is two tired.

What do you call a dinosaur with an extensive vocabulary? A thesaurus.

“It's hard to take someone seriously when they leave you a note saying, 'Your ugly.' My ugly what? The idiot didn't even know the difference between your and you're.” ― Cara Lynn Shultz

A will is a dead giveaway.

“A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the other one.” ― Baltasar Gracián

Sea captains don't like crew cuts.

Knock, knock.
(Who's there?)
To.
(To who?)
To whom.

Two quotation marks "walk into" a bar.

Every time you make a typo, the errorists win.

What do you say when comforting a crying grammar fan? There, their, they’re.