A few months ago, one of my fellow mom friends was accused by her teenage daughter of using "aggressive punctuation" in text messages. Since we're both writers, my friend and I discussed this new ...

“Semicolon usage in British English books has fallen by nearly 50% in the past two decades,” a report by the language-learning website Babbel proclaimed in May. Their findings had the desired effect.

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 ...

I was in middle school the first time I heard the old saying about what happens when you assume. A teacher wrote the word on the blackboard then used slashes to show what it makes out of “u” and “me.” ...

Let us today sing out in praise of punctuation, the undervalued signposts of language, the critical cues that help readers make their way through barren and forbidding forests of words, the markings ...