The # has a name you’d never guess. Developed for touch-tone telephones in 1968, that little hex is called an octothorpe.

We’re using semicolons less and less; the apostrophe still stumps most of us. Meanwhile, @, #, :, ) have taken on new ...

For thousands of years, the written word contained no indications of pauses, clauses or breaks. Then came the curls and ...

Choz Cunningham created a punctuation mark with a similar purpose and called it the “Snark Mark”, he used a period followed by a tilde (.~) at the end of a sentence to indicate snark or a sarcastic ...

In a recent informal Twitter survey of which punctuation marks one would marry, kill, or you-know-what, we found a strong reaction in favor of keeping the em-dash alive. Others preferred the ...

Keith Houston is not a writer by profession, nor is he a trained historian, grammarian, or linguist. Frankly, the Edinburgh-based software engineer is as surprised as anyone to have written a book ...

Forget black rhinos and the Amazon rainforest: there’s something arguably just as precious joining the endangered species list, only this time, it’s a grammatical rather than biological extinction ...

National Punctuation Day commemorates all punctuation on September 24. A period, a comma, a semicolon, a question mark, and an exclamation point are examples of some of the punctuation used in writing ...

Semicolon use by Americans has dropped by 51% since the early 2000s to once every 378 words; younger Americans say they still ...