No piece of punctuation, though, stirs people up more than the humble semicolon. Too demure to be a colon but more assertive ...

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 “Seinfeld ...

There's one punctuation mark Gen Z wants you to stop using. Here's what it is—and why it's falling out of favor.

Suddenly, everyone’s obsessed with the em dash—because AI screams, “I’m a serious writer” like using punctuation that looks like it’s trying to slash up the comma (,) and date the ...