Celebrate National Grammar Day - 23 June 2008

[This episode originally aired March 3, 2008.]<br/><br/>Do you know where your participle is dangling? Martha and Grant salute National Grammar Day. <br/><br/>Also, when you're scribbling on a piece of paper, do you find yourself expecting spellcheck to kick in and underline your misspellings with squiggly red lines? A caller wants a term for the act of trying to do offline what can only be done online. <br/><br/>Let's see...there's National Cheese Day on January 20 and of course National Iguana Awareness Day on September 8. So it's only fitting that good grammar should get a day of its own, too. National Grammar Day has been proclaimed for March 4 by the the Society for the Promotion of Good Grammar, an organization for those 'who crave good, clean English--sentences cast well and punctuated correctly.' The group's site, sums it up this way: 'It's about clarity.' <br/><br/>Martha and Grant are down with that. So here's to National Grammar Day and also to the wise cautionary note sounded by <i>Baltimore Sun</i> copy editor John McIntyre about the danger of getting too curmudegonly about it all.<br/><br/>A woman calls on behalf of her 12-year-old son, who wants to know the origin of the term 'booby trap.' No, the hosts explain, the answer has nothing to do with brassieres.<br/><br/>A Wisconsin resident gets misty-eyed remembering the steaming plates of Beef Manhattan and Turkey Manhattan from his elementary-school days in central Indiana. But why the 'Manhattan' in their names? How far back to do you remember eating it? Let us know.<br/><br/>An equestrian wonders about the origin of the expression 'lock, stock, and barrel.'<br/><br/>Quiz Guy John Chaneski presents a word puzzle about snowclones, linguists' joking term for twists on formulaic expressions.<br/><br/>Have you ever done something you regretted, and instinctively reached for the 'undo' function, despite being nowhere near a computer? Maybe a page in your book accidentally turns and you reach for the browser's back button? A Hoosier seeks a term for the