Most great writers agonise over punctuation. Oscar Wilde wrote that revising one of his poems took a day: the morning to take ...

As we gathered punctuation favorites from a range of our favorite writers, novelists, and word-knowledgable people, we ran into a cold, hard fact. Some punctuation marks were hated, perhaps none more ...

Hi, readers! Let’s talk about email! What’s with all the exclamation points?! I’m serious. Have you noticed how this one punctuation mark dominates your email messages — both those you get and those ...

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Hello! I want you to know that I’m super excited about this week’s column!! It’s about exclamation points!!!! I recently received a work-related email riddled with them, as if it was written by an ...

This lavishly researched book shows that dots and dashes are an essential component of style, whether you’re a medieval monk or Donald Trump ...