Punctuation is the sturdy armature of written language, yet it does its job quietly, in the background. We tend to spend far ...

Florence Hazrat’s book is not a “mere wacky usage guide,” but rather a “lavishly researched scholarly inquiry,” The Guardian ...

The history of punctuation is the history of humanity,” argues Florence Hazrat, a researcher, in a rollicking new book. Often ...

“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 ...

Punctuation was invented by the Greeks, but only barely. They used three dots to regulate the meter of plays and poems, one on the bottom of a line of print, one centered and one above. Aldus Manutius ...

I was traveling last week and missed the deadline for the first annual National Punctuation Day Baking Contest, in which contestants were to bake something in the shape of a punctuation mark and send ...