It is a piece of punctuation that has divided writers and authors for centuries. Novelists including Virginia Woolf and Jane Austen have not shied away from using them, but that has not stopped ...

When reading a classic book, we tend to pay attention to the themes, the characters, and the story. We say the words aloud. We notice everything, in fact, except for one crucial thing: the punctuation ...

Clarity is essential in life. A misinterpreted sentence, whether verbal or written, may have disastrous consequences. The importance of punctuation marks is clearly demonstrated in the difference ...

Hemingway actually used denser punctuation than Jane Austen, William Faulkner, or Charles Dickens. As writers, we’re endlessly fascinated by the idiosyncrasies of authors and the way they use ...

A moment's hesitation... Yes, a full stop here – but shouldn’t there be a comma there? Or would a hyphen be better? Punctuation can be a nuisance; it is often simply neglected. Wrong! The most recent ...

If you hang out with anyone under 30, you might have noticed that punctuation has been getting a bad rap lately, especially when it comes to texting. While putting a period at the end of a sentence ...

Punctuation is having a moment. There was this book. Then these posters. Now, there's yet another set of visualizations that looks at the unsung heroes of literature. Inspired by Nicholas Rougeux's ...

Despite its everyday relevance, the reputation of punctuation is tarnished. Actually, modern English punctuation is often considered not more than a necessary evil. For many people, punctuation usage ...

Hazard functions represent the probability of using a punctuation mark as a function of the length of the sequence without these marks. In terms of punctuation, the most 'cross-linguistic' is German ...