A few years back I set out to write a comprehensive punctuation book — one that laid out the rules for proper punctuation in every situation imaginable. How naïve I was. You don’t have to spend a lot ...

Punctuation can get you punched. It doesn’t matter if it’s good punctuation or bad. I’ve irked people using either. There was the time that I was suckered into working on a group project to produce a ...

Dear Miss Manners: Is punctuation in text messaging necessary? Onlyifyouwanttobeunderstood. Dear Miss Manners: My employer texted a photo of a woman he’s seeing while he was out on a date with her.

Rejoice, my fellow grammar fanatics, for today is National Punctuation Day! If you're* friends who haven't quite grasped (or simply don't care about) the concept of run-on sentences and the Oxford ...

Some expressions are hard to punctuate. Take the phrase “How about that”; too sprightly for a plain ordinary . , it is sometimes too ironic to justify an ebullient ! . More often than not, isn’t it ...

Today is National Punctuation Day — a special day that I celebrated earlier this week by baking punctuation cupcakes for my students and colleagues at Michigan State University. My favorite cupcakes ...