The period (full stop) is perhaps the only punctuation mark that learners and those versed in the English language use correctly. On the other hand, the most misused punctuation marks by both learner ...

A new form of punctuation is infecting the Internet, writes Conor Dillon in an intriguing post on the "jumper colon." A new colon is on the march. For now let's call it the "jumper colon". For ...

A colon is used to give emphasis, present dialogue, introduce lists or text, and clarify composition titles. Emphasis—Capitalize the first word after the colon only if it is a proper noun or the start ...

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 ...

“Semicolon usage in British English books has fallen by nearly 50% in the past two decades,” a report by the language-learning website Babbel proclaimed in May. Their findings had the desired effect.

Are you afraid of semicolons? How about colons? I once knew someone who would not say the word "colon" when talking about punctuation because, in her mind, it conjured up images of human posterior ...

In celebration of National Punctuation Day, one of our commenters noted James Joyce's playful use of the colon . Will Berlin writes: One of my all-time favorite uses of the colon is from Ulysses. The ...

Are you manic about misplaced commas? Apoplectic over rogue apostrophes? Distressed by the disappearing question mark? You don’t have to be an outspoken member of the punctuation police to know the ...

Like it or not, we now live in a world of LOL OMG ROFL, where lots of highly educated people have thrown spelling and grammar to the wayside in favor of laziness and saving time. But one man has never ...

The age-old semicolon is dying out as Britons admit to never or rarely using the punctuation mark, a study has found. In 19th century English literature it appeared once in every 205 words, but today ...