Semicolon use by Americans has dropped by 51% since the early 2000s to once every 378 words; younger Americans say they still ...

Do you really need punctuation, spell-check and proper grammar when chatting with AI? I’ve tested how being polite alters response, so I just had to know if the tone and content of chatbot replies ...

While we all slip up from time to time, there are some basic punctuation mistakes you should never make in formal writing. For example, don't confuse "it's" and "its," don't use an apostrophe to ...

All the fuss about AI and the em dash offers an opportunity to rethink the overuse of this most beloved but mostly ...

One of the difficulties about punctuation is that a lot of it is down to personal preference or “style”. And that isn’t just a recent thing, to be blamed on textspeak and the belief that the world is ...

New symbols are being designed; old marks are serving new purposes. And collectives are actively working to preserve the ...

“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 ...

National Punctuation Day commemorates all punctuation on September 24. A period, a comma, a semicolon, a question mark, and an exclamation point are examples of some of the punctuation used in writing ...

Recently in this space we talked about how, when two punctuation marks bump up against each other, one can sometimes preclude the other. For example, a phrase that would normally be followed by a ...

Michigan company says SarcMark should be official punctuation mark for sarcasm. Jan. 18, 2010— -- Watch out, :-) Stand aside, j/k. There's a new kind of punctuation in town and it wants sarcasm ...