Like most parents, I text with my teens regularly, and I feel fairly competent: I’m a good communicator, know the lingo, and ...

Learn the difference between hyphen, en dash, and em dash with simple rules and examples. It improves clarity, accuracy, and ...

Word of the Day: A palindrome is a word, phrase, number, or sequence that reads the same forwards and backward, ignoring spaces and punctuation. Originating from Greek roots meaning 'running back ...

One immediately notices that Ancient Greek writing exclusively used uppercase letters, without any lowercase ones. This system is known as a majuscule script, originating from stone inscriptions, ...

James Joyce's tome 'Finnegans Wake' famously breaks the rules of normal prose through its unusual, dreamlike stream of consciousness, and new work in chaos theory takes a closer look at how Joyce's ...

It's divisive; it cleaves; it drives some people crazy. The writer Kurt Vonnegut said of the semicolon: It's showy; it's chiefly used to show you've been to college. More than two-thirds of young ...

Use punctuation to clarify meaning in sentences. Watch out! These goat punks have been playing around by kicking the punctuation out of sentences. Join a punk crew to put the punctuation back and ...

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 ...

The first reported use of the semicolon was in the essay "De Aetna," pictured in part here, by Pietro Bembo and published by Aldus Manutius in the 1490s. Aldus Manutius, Pietro Bembo The semicolon has ...

"Rend your cheeks and rub ashes into your hair," said The Spectator, for the semicolon, that "most elegant, elusive of punctuation marks", is all but dead. Use of the semicolon (in lists, or to join ...