“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 ...

The September issue of the Peecolon Monthly Report was about "punctuation marks."First of all, what exactly are "punctuation ...

In elementary school, we learn that there are logical rules for the use of punctuation. Semicolons connect two related independent clauses, while colons follow an independent clause and introduce a ...

It is clear we shall never tire of lamenting on our people’s lack of punctuation sense, even if that will be at expense of boring the few among us who consider the habit of starting people’s names ...

The digital age has not been kind to the English language. Capitalization, proper spelling, and punctuation long ago became optional when texting friends or chatting online. The period was one of the ...

I was a novice editor, he was an experienced writer, and the first article he turned in revealed a virtuosic command of comma placement. He opened with long, slow clauses; picked up speed with shorter ...

Not long ago, if I saw a sentence like “Tommy gets A’s and B’s,” I would have changed it to “Tommy gets A’s and Bs.” But only if I was working for a publication that followed Los Angeles Times’ ...

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 ...

“Ninja Gaiden 2 is part of a dying breed, so I’m inclined to be nice towards it as I would towards anyone else with a terminal illness.” — Ben Croshaw, creator of Zero Punctuation. Zero Punctuation is ...