Writers can misuse or overuse hyphens, em dashes, colons and, to some editors' disgust, semicolons. Using a period is a ...

Tesla boss Elon Musk and singer Grimes had to change their firstborn son's name just a few weeks after his birth, as it did ...

Halifax, Edenton, Fayetteville, Hillsborough, Salisbury and Wilmington streets and New Bern Avenue were named for several of ...

While the Court’s politics have veered right over the past decade, the justices’ prose has shifted left, becoming more ...

Since the publication of her justly celebrated debut A Girl Is a Half-Formed Thing in 2013, Eimear McBride has been vocal ...

This series of short films, with former Blue Peter presenter Radzi Chinyangany, explores the rules of punctuation by challenging teams of six children to complete punctuation tasks. This series ...

A law, which took effect in Poland on November 1, 2024, compels road carriers from third states to register in the SENT/RMPD system for transit through Poland, and Ukrainian road carriers diligently ...

This one is inspired by The Aspen Times editor Ray K. Erku, who rightly called my bluff recently when I tried to capitalize the names of a few wine grapes. “One thing I have ...

The KS2 Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar paper will test you with questions about spelling rules, prefixes and suffixes, apostrophes, adverbs and more. Use the links below to find out more or ...

The rules for public comment remain unchanged ... They included striking, adding or changing a word or punctuation in various sections. Each of those motions was approved 11-0.

This tricky maths puzzle has people scratching their heads as they try to figure out the correct answer - but can you get it ...

He looked at language the way a gem cutter assesses stones. He broke them open, examined each angle and facet, and ordered ...