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
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URL: cla.calpoly.edu/~jrubba

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