Punctuation captures the pauses and inflection of speech. Will we continue to use it in a digital age? Yes, Florence Hazrat argues, in a brief history of punctuation at Aeon: The development of ...

The elephant under the Vatican was a papal pet and so much more. Look at this… the origins of punctuation marks! Speaking of origins, the history of baby needs a new pair of shoes. And wouldn t this ...

Keith Houston is not a writer by profession, nor is he a trained historian, grammarian, or linguist. Frankly, the Edinburgh-based software engineer is as surprised as anyone to have written a book ...

If you hang out with anyone under 30, you might have noticed that punctuation has been getting a bad rap lately, especially when it comes to texting. While putting a period at the end of a sentence ...

For writers at work, punctuation can slip from a matter of convention to one of obsession. I just finished my poetry thesis last week, and I’m embarrassed to admit the number of times I changed ...

It’s a proven fact that as you get older you worry more about punctuation. Fussing about apostrophes and semicolons just comes with the territory. Thus, it’s no surprise that the other day our coffee ...

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 ...