Or a winter classic, I reckon. “Jingle Bells” lyric sheets contain one or more grammatical errors.
Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the way
is incorrect. The singer is addressing the bells, so it needs a comma for the noun of direct address:
Jingle, bells; Jingle, bells; Jingle all the way.
It could probably use a semicolon or two as well.
The misunderstanding of the song has made people think there is a class of bells called “jingle bells,” but in the song, the class of bells is probably sleigh bells which jingle.
Actually, I have no idea of if any of the preceding is true. I’m just sitting here trying to do my Grammar Virtue Signalling, wherein I expound upon some fine point of grammar that no one disputes because nobody knows grammar like I think I do and because nobody continues listening when I go into Grammar Nazi mode. You yourself are probably not reading these words.
