Punctuation is the sturdy armature of written language, yet it does its job quietly, in the background. We tend to spend far ...

The history of punctuation is the history of humanity,” argues Florence Hazrat, a researcher, in a rollicking new book. Often ...

I am a question mark, what do I do? I’m at the end of questions like Where? What? or Who? Punk, punk, punctuation … As we mark this most auspicious celebration of dots, lines and odd scribbles in our ...

LONDON — Like the fissionable atom, punctuation marks are wee items capable of causing a tremendous release of energy. Passionate disagreement over the use of exclamation points is so familiar that a ...

The age-old semicolon is dying out as Britons admit to never or rarely using the punctuation mark, a study has found. In English-written 19th century literature it appeared once in every 205 words, ...