The debate about ChatGPT’s use of the em dash signifies a shift in not only how we write, but what writing is for.

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

The idea is to write a sentence in which a word or phrase is included covertly, camouflaged among the letters of longer words the way "Dylan" is tucked inside "Candyland" and "astir" is strung across ...

You probably noticed this place is called Mount Scary. Well, that’s not because of the mountain. Allow me to explain. Y’see, she’s not just a yeti… she’s a scary yeti. Scary is an adjective. An ...

When a conversation heats up, the smallest choices in wording can nudge things toward connection or collision.

Annotating the margins of books is an important part of deep reading and has a long legacy of merit in both science and ...

Cathy Pedrayes is perpetually online and is also a mom. She says parents should set up child accounts to ensure they will ...

Choz Cunningham created a punctuation mark with a similar purpose and called it the “Snark Mark”, he used a period followed ...

The Philadelphia Eagles had one of the most impressive finishes to a playoff run in NFL history, with a combined 40-point margin of victory in the NFC ...

These are things people might say when they claim to be setting boundaries:“You really have to stop coming over unannounced.”“Don’t talk to me that way.”“If you can’t honor my needs, I’m cutting off ...