In a recent informal Twitter survey of which punctuation marks one would marry, kill, or you-know-what, we found a strong reaction in favor of keeping the em-dash alive. Others preferred the ...

Have you seen all seven before? These strange punctuation marks once served a purpose, and can again!

HOUSTON – Proper punctuation is less relevant in an age of fleeting digital communication, and an unscientific survey of Houston teens finds they use very little punctuation in informal correspondence ...

Punctuation is a set of specific marks or symbols that we used to express the meaning of our sentences clearly and to make the flow of the text smooth. It shows us where we need to pause, it separates ...

Today is a special holiday! Happy National Punctuation Day. Punctuation can be both the great love and the occasional bane of a writer's existence, and it's not strange that a love affair may crop up ...

An American University study found in 2007 that college students use sentence-ending punctuation marks only 39 percent of the time in texts and 45 percent of the time during instant messaging. That ...

The following is the first of three excerpts from Keith Houston’s new book, Shady Characters: The Secret Life of Punctuation, Symbols, and Other Typographical Marks. The orthographic world of ancient ...

Most of us who are picky about punctuation—we like to think of ourselves as fastidious, thank you very much—are content to silently grumble when we come across an errant apostrophe on a restaurant ...

Alex Chitu reports Google is now showing search results for punctuation marks and other types of symbols. In the past, Google ignored most punctuation marks and didn’t show any results for them that ...

Hemingway actually used denser punctuation than Jane Austen, William Faulkner, or Charles Dickens. As writers, we’re endlessly fascinated by the idiosyncrasies of authors and the way they use ...