Yesterday marked the 11th annual National Punctuation Day, a day of celebration for word nerds and grammar enthusiasts. To quote the National Punctuation Day website, the holiday honors “the lowly ...
Punctuation marks may be small, but they carry a lot of weight—shaping tone, clarifying meaning and even signaling the writer’s personality. I adore the em dash; I tend to be a bit of a drama queen ...
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 ...