Punctuation may seem like a small detail in the grand scheme of writing, but its impact on communication is profound. These ...

New symbols are being designed; old marks are serving new purposes. And collectives are actively working to preserve the correct uses of the dots and squiggles.

FOR this Nostalgia edition we wanted to take a look at literacy in schools on National Punctuation Day.

The # has a name you’d never guess. Developed for touch-tone telephones in 1968, that little hex is called an octothorpe.

National Punctuation Day commemorates all punctuation on September 24. A period, a comma, a semicolon, a question mark, and an exclamation point are examples of some of the punctuation used in writing ...

Semicolon use by Americans has dropped by 51% since the early 2000s to once every 378 words; younger Americans say they still ...

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 score points to win!

This test shows that chatbots are certainly not grammar snobs and they “get it” even if words are misspelled and punctuation is missing. Regardless of which chatbot is used, the results of no ...

A password manager can be an extremely useful thing to have in your digital armoury. It’s a piece of software that generates, ...

Whether it’s a floor-to-ceiling chimney breast clad in zellige tiles, a dining nook wrapped in a bucolic tiled mural or ...

For thousands of years, the written word contained no indications of pauses, clauses or breaks. Then came the curls and ...