“People don’t know why they get so upset about language,” David Crystal told me recently, over Skype from his home in Wales. “ ‘Potato’s,’ with an apostrophe ‘S,’ ” he offered, as an example of the ...

It’s easy to take punctuation for granted after seeing commas, question marks and periods your whole life, but the reality is, punctuation is quite interesting, and some of the facts about it might ...

A moment's hesitation... Yes, a full stop here—but shouldn't there be a comma there? Or would a hyphen be better? Punctuation can be a nuisance; it is often simply neglected. Wrong! The most recent ...

Is nothing sacred anymore? Now we can’t even text — text, the thing millennials practically invented on T9 keyboards — without being called out by Gen Z. The generation who banned skinny jeans and ...

“Thank you!!! We appreciate your business!!” writes a breathless customer service agent. “I’m sooo sorry!!!” writes an administrative assistant after making ...

Punctuation is having a moment. There was this book. Then these posters. Now, there's yet another set of visualizations that looks at the unsung heroes of literature. Inspired by Nicholas Rougeux's ...