Why is punctuation important? Writing without punctuation is like living life without breaks and pauses. A small mark with ...

The Apostrophe Protection Society is going along very strongly; perhaps we need a Semicolon Supporting Society?

Tired of ending your sentences with a boring period or exclamation point? Try one of these uncommon punctuation marks instead, and impress your grammar-loving friends. If you passed the third ...

Various respected writers, including Kurt Vonnegut, Edgar Allan Poe, Gertrude Stein and Cormac McCarthy, have publicly denounced my favourite punctuation mark as “showy”, “unnecessary ...

I’m talking about the poor, misunderstood semicolon. Yes, that most elegant of punctuation marks – sitting elusively somewhere between an en-dash and a colon – is officially under threat. Its usage in ...

The age-old semicolon is dying out as Britons admit to never or rarely using the punctuation mark, a study has found. In 19th century English literature it appeared once in every 205 words ...

Cocogun is leading the human fightback against AI-generated writing, with the introduction of a new punctuation mark: the am dash. Inspired by Descartes’ centuries’ old maxim “I think ...

butterfly semicolon tattoos or any other use for this punctuation mark other than to separate two independent clauses. Much to my surprise, I now feel justified in composing this rather trivial ...

Reporting other people’s speeches or writings is a technical exercise in which punctuation marks play strategic roles. Whether it is in direct speech or the indirect, punctuation marks such as ...

Researchers compared the distribution of punctuation marks in various experimental novels to determine the underlying order of 'Finnegans Wake' and by statistically analyzing the texts ...