Phoebe and Her Unicorn by Dana Simpson for October 22, 2015

I wonder how my apostrophes Phoebe’s elf name has. The more you’ve got, the fancier you are!

This is the beeeeeeeeeeeest thjiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiing.

A question mark would have been cooler, and draw questions (heh heh).

THAT IS AWESOME!!!!

A grammar punctuation mark; how scary.

Better than being dressed as Boy George.

Shared with the Facebook group “Save the apostrophe,” dedicated to stamping out apostrophe abuse wherever you may find it.

Such a versatile costume: With the addition of a mortarboard, she could go as an Oxford comma.

Um Hallowe’en

Pancake Breakfast.

Or even a gnaborretni, which is the Spanish upside-down version of that mark that goes at the beginning of sentences.

Looks like a comma to me.

I’m glad you’re not being a colon, Phoebe.

She’s very self-possessed, now.

My pet peeve is people who dont understand the proper use of apostrophe’s.

What if her friends dress as a “Y”, "O’, “U” and “R”? Phoebe won’t fit in.

Better to be an apostrophe than a catastrophe.

Just keep her out of the grocery store.

Good job Phoebe.

She’s going dressed as a Frank Zappa CD?

“You look just like your grammar did at your age!”

Second option: a semicolon, no one would know what tot do with her.

And I’ll bet she knows the difference between “your” and “you’re.”

Okay, but I’m holding firm at Two Spaces. Except in texts where you don’t have any to spare.

Good thing it’s not Prince’s old “symbol” thingy, or else she’ll be called T.A.F.K.A.P.

( Rosie O’Donnell’s running gag, since no one could pronounce it, let alone name it, at the time, it stood for ‘The Artist Formerly Known As Prince’)

Apostrophes have their proper place.

If she falls over unconscious, THEN we can assume she slipped into a comma.

Marigold can be an exclamation point.

sHE’S TOO SHORT. eVERYBODY WILL THINK SHE’S A COMMA.