As astute readers know, “The Angry Grammarian” is more than just a column—it’s also a musical. And after years of development, the show is set to have its world premiere in Philadelphia in March 2024.
This is a big deal.
Lots more info—including ticket links and swag opportunities—to come very soon, but in the meantime, we’re accepting audition submissions through Friday. If you know Philly-based performers who love punctuation, share that link with them.
In the meantime, this week’s column takes us down to North Carolina, home of chicken, biscuits and the most hilarious apostrophes you’ve ever seen …
The fast-food restaurant Bojangles is coming to New Jersey. Before it does, I feel a solemn responsibility to inform you: It’s a punctuation coward.
Last month the zoning board in Piscataway, N.J., approved plans for the North Carolina-based chicken and biscuits (or as they say, unnecessarily, “chicken ‘n biscuits”) chain to open in the township. The company is planning 10 restaurants across Bergen, Essex, Hudson, Middlesex, and Union Counties.
But until recently, the company was too chicken to even say where the apostrophe in its name was supposed to go.
For years, the official Bojangles logo included an apostrophe right smack on top of the S.
Not before, not after.
This was obviously wrong. But it was also hilarious.
The only plausible explanation is that the restaurant chain couldn’t decide whether the apostrophe was supposed to go before or after the S, so it split the difference like splitting a perfectly flaky biscuit.
Read the full column at Inqurier.com.