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BroadwayGirlNYC on Twitter started fantasizing about "Grammar Girl: The Musical," and people have been joining in with song suggestions.

"Wonderful Noun" (@BroadwayGirlNYC)
"Into the Words (@SuzieD_NYC)
"Don't Say 'Lie' When You Mean 'Lay'" (@Bobster427)
"If I Had a Grammar" (@J_Keith)
"She's Hysterical. She's Hilarious" (me)

What songs can you imagine? If you post it on Twitter, use the hashtag #GrammarGirlMusicalSongs.

UPDATE, July 24: Additional songs people have suggested:

"Marian the Grammarian" (@pianoeditor)
"Maxwell's Silver Grammar" (@pianoeditor)
"Talk Like a Linguician" (@pianoeditor)
"Conjugate! Conjugate! Dance to the Music" (@larry_kunz)
"Larry Kunz ‏@larry_kunz)
"(You're My) Soul and Punctuation" (@larry_kunz)
"When you're an editor, you're an editor all the way. From your first red pencil to your last dyin' day." (@larry_kunz)
"I was Plussed" (@quickbrownfox42)
"An Excellent Nomer" (@quickbrownfox42)
"Morphologically Misunderestimated" (@quickbrownfox42)
"Grammar Thing Going" (@meliciaaarghh)
"Noun Song Glory" (@meliciaaarghh)
"The Last Night of the Word" (@meliciaaarghh)
"Nounsies" (@StageElf)
"A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Dictionary" (@StageElf)
"Part of Your Word" (@SuzieD_NYC)
"Magical Mr. Apostrophes" (@melissa_hank)
"They're In Their Car Over There" (@devospice)
"If I Were a Rich Girl" (@atrudel)
"Killing Me Softly with You're Song" (@atrudel)

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Mignon Fogarty is better known online as Grammar Girl and is the author of the new Grammar Girl's 101 Troublesome Words You'll Master in No Time.