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On the 12th day of Christmas…

21st

Dec

by Sarah Turner

On the 12th day of Christmas my true love gave to me…

Gluten Free Christmas Pudding

Twelve semicolons
Eleven prepositions
Ten Oxford commas
Nine active voices
Eight split infinitives
Seven double quotes
Six antonyms
Five it’s not its (da da-da da-daa-daa)
Four ands and buts
Three heteronyms
Two homophones
And one well placed apostrophe

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2 Responses to “On the 12th day of Christmas…”

Rob says:

21 December 2009 at 1:30pm

And the odd hungover hyphen?

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- Sarah Turner says:
  
  21 December 2009 at 1:42pm
  
  Almost certainly!
  
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