Just heard about this on the radio: Sister Bernadette's Barking Dog: The Quirky History and Lost Art of Diagramming Sentences by Kitty Burns Florey Melville House 2006 ISBN 1933633107 200 pp. Florey diagrams short and long sentences from literary and other sources (e.g., George W.). Acc. to the radio piece, a bunch of middle- schoolers had a lot of fun with it. To hear the report: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6569894 Today's Weekend Edition Saturday. Dr. Johanna Rubba, Ph. D. Associate Professor, Linguistics Linguistics Minor Advisor English Dept. Cal Poly State University San Luis Obispo San Luis Obispo, CA 93407 Ofc. tel. : 805-756-2184 Dept. tel.: 805-756-2596 Dept. fax: 805-756-6374 E-mail: [log in to unmask] URL: cla.calpoly.edu/~jrubba To join or leave this LISTSERV list, please visit the list's web interface at: http://listserv.muohio.edu/archives/ateg.html and select "Join or leave the list" Visit ATEG's web site at http://ateg.org/