The punctuation mark that annoys people the most is, without a doubt, the apostrophe. Whole books have been written lamenting atrocities like “five carrot’s and three kiwi’s” (for the record, that ...

I can think of a few things off the top of my head that I hope never to use: math, a fire extinguisher, Pepto Bismol, and the flotation device on the bottom of my seat cushion on an airplane. In ...

Everyone knows that the world’s material resources — food, water, oil — are distributed unequally, but few realize that the same is true for punctuation. Take quotation marks: Some forms of writing, ...

I’ve gotten a lot of emails recently about where to put periods and commas relative to quotation marks. The notes were prompted by a recent column in which I mentioned that, in American English, a ...

Stop what you're doing and look around. How many signs, marketing posters, or product packages do you see riddled with grammatical errors? If you have any with overused quotation marks, like my ice ...

A very minor detail in the scheme of this great thing called life, but I stumbled upon a case study in how modern journalism can become a game of telephone. First, there was this section in the New ...