In an age where texting has become a largely dominant form of communication, the use of punctuation and syntax has inevitably evolved. As Lisa McLendon, a professor of journalism and mass ...

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 ...

Style guides have made recent updates to their punctuation rules. Grammar columnist June Casagrande suggests ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. All the answers here are linked in some way. Once you’ve spotted the connection, any you didn’t know the first ...

We take them for granted, but they are the backbone of how we write. Where would we be if you couldn’t emphasize your shock by ending your sentence with “?!” or using “;” to signal a pause? The scene ...

We’re living in a time where we have more technology than ever for sharing our words, but we still constantly get misunderstood. One cause of this is that we simply don’t use enough punctuation in our ...

For thousands of years, the written word contained no indications of pauses, clauses or breaks. Then came the curls and squiggles. See how these evolved. From the ancient scrolls that sit in the great ...

This week with fun facts from your library, I’m bringing you random but relevant information about punctuation and celebrating National Punctuation Day which is held on September 24 th every year.

Let’s talk about the em dash. Not the little innocent hyphen, not its slightly more confident cousin, the en dash. No, I’m talking about the 'EM dash,' that long, dramatic line that AI looooooves to ...

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