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Recipe writing is an art. You might not even think of it as writing, but it requires absolute precision, not only in word choice but also in punctuation. Overlooking punctuation is one of several ...
A joke about punctuation has been chosen as the funniest in a competition run by the Beano comic. Youngsters from Year 5 at Riverley Primary School in Leyton, London, won the accolade, with their ...
That is the power of punctuation. Here are essential rules to help you use punctuation marks accurately and effectively in your writing.
This punctuation belongs to the people and the very "literature it was trained on". Suspicion of the em dash "speaks to our mounting paranoia about automated communication", said Rolling Stone.
Are you being ironic or sarcastic? With periods, who knows? Clarify your messages with these handy yet uncommon punctuation marks.
I’ve long avoided exclamation points. Until dark times arrived and the lively punctuation became a signal flare in a cold, gray sea.
Full Stop Punctuation, or Typing “.” into YouTube, was a glitch in YouTube’s search function in the mid-00s which brought otherwise unlisted search results to the top of the page. The ...
Apple's default keyboard encourages lazy typing, especially among younger users. No more commas or periods; everything is the same string sentence.
In the past few years, the skull emoji has transformed into a symbol for younger people to communicate humor or irony.
When did punctuation become so emotional? A look back at its history helps explain its current controversial role in our texts.