You’re not alone. These are the names of some uncommon punctuation marks that pack a punch in one little symbol. Reader’s Digest put together this fascinating list of real (and really uncommon ...

Those little punctuation marks mean more than we realize, and mastering them can make all the difference in how we communicate. Reader’s Digest put together this list of commonly misused ...

Use it or don’t. Both choices are valid. Meanwhile, little-discussed, barely-visible-on-Google punctuation errors continue to cause problems for many writers. Here are some of the punctuation ...

“Are you sure??!!” inquires a warehouse employee. What led to this poly-punctuation trend? In the not-so-distant past, people expressed their feelings either in person or on the phone ...

Professor Christopher Mulvey provides some bullet points. 1. Favourite origin story The great age of punctuation lasted from 1460 to the time of Aldus Manutius, who died 500 years ago. The arrival ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Punctuation is not the sort of subject that readily gets the juices flowing, but for every staid comma or colon ...

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 ...

Hemingway actually used denser punctuation than Jane Austen, William Faulkner, or Charles Dickens. As writers, we’re endlessly fascinated by the idiosyncrasies of authors and the way they use ...