Punctuation is a set of specific marks or symbols that we used to express the meaning of our sentences clearly and to make the flow of the text smooth. It shows us where we need to pause, it separates ...

We all know how important punctuation marks are in our scripts, because punctuation fills our writing with expression. We pause, stop, emphasise, or question using a comma, a period, an exclamation ...

Several writers and inventors in the last century tried to introduce new marks of punctuation into the English language – but they all failed. Keith Houston tells their story. In the 1930s and ’40s, ...

You probably already know the interrobang, thanks to its excellent moniker and increasing popularity. Though the combination exclamation point and question mark can be replaced by using one of each ...

We should be grateful that English has 10 punctuation devices to help writers closely approximate its stops, pauses, and hesitations as a spoken language. In the discussion that follows, however, I ...

EVER wished the question mark and exclamation mark would get together? They did! It's called the interrobang and it's one of many punctation points you never knew about. Sure, we're all familiar with ...