•April 13, 2022•
By Jim Baumann
NP Guest Writer

Many of you are kind enough to share with me multiple forwarded collections of embarrassing headlines from other newspapers, unfortunate misspellings or captions, punctuation puns and dirty limericks.
Even I’ve shared a few. And I’ve gone so far as to debunk some headlines that were doctored to look bad when they were perfectly fine.
Today, I rooted around for my own truffles. I found something on Facebook that for the briefest of moments made me believe the social media leviathan might be redeemable: a group called “The English Teacher’s Daughter.”
Check it out. It’s a bit like a grown-up version of this column.
There I found a well-worn bit that proves the power of punctuation as well as our inherent biases.     Login or Subscribe to read the rest of this story.