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Jeff Rubin from the San Francisco, CA area was a former reporter. In the early 2000’s he became frustrated with horrible punctuation habits. He was finding glaring errors in practically everything he read, especially printed media like newspapers, books and magazines. He pointed out changes in punctuation can radically change the meaning, as in “Let’s eat Grandma” or “Let’s eat, Grandma.” Jeff worried schools weren’t emphasizing proper use of punctuation, and often teachers and administrators were unclear on the proper use of punctuation. Jeff decided something must be done, so he created National Punctuation Day in 2004 to bring attention to the problem. English has 26 punctuation characters: Ampersand, Angle brackets, Apostrophe, Asterisk, At sign, Back slash, Bullet point, Caret, Colon, Comma, Curly brackets, Ellipses, Em dash, En dash, Exclamation point, Hyphen, Parentheses, Period, Pipe symbol, Pound sign, Question mark, Quotation, Semicolon, Slash, Square brackets, and Tilde. Do you know them all?e