Welcome to Literary Quotable Quotes, a quiz that tests your recognition of classic lines. This week’s installment highlights ...

Punctuation seems like a minimal detail of Italian grammar, almost invisible, but it is one of the elements that most influence the clarity, rhythm and credibility of a text. All it takes is a ...

Trudeau, who has been prime minister since 2015... Any post mentioned without reference to the post-holder should be in lower case - e.g. The prime minister will be out of the country for several days ...

And it looks like we finally have answers! Director Emerald Fennell told Fandango, "I think it's a lot of things, but I think that primarily because the book means so much to me and it means so, so ...

I do not know who first observed the difference between “Let’s eat, Grandma,” with a comma, and “Let’s eat Grandma,” without. One version expresses a relatively polite invitation to dinner; the other ...

Use punctuation to clarify meaning in sentences. Watch out! These goat punks have been playing around by kicking the punctuation out of sentences. Join a punk crew to put the punctuation back and ...

Let’s talk about the em dash. Not the little innocent hyphen, not its slightly more confident cousin, the en dash. No, I’m talking about the 'EM dash,' that long, dramatic line that AI looooooves to ...

Is nothing sacred anymore? Now we can’t even text — text, the thing millennials practically invented on T9 keyboards — without being called out by Gen Z. The generation who banned skinny jeans and ...

The first reported use of the semicolon was in the essay "De Aetna," pictured in part here, by Pietro Bembo and published by Aldus Manutius in the 1490s. Aldus Manutius, Pietro Bembo The semicolon has ...

"Rend your cheeks and rub ashes into your hair," said The Spectator, for the semicolon, that "most elegant, elusive of punctuation marks", is all but dead. Use of the semicolon (in lists, or to join ...

A conversation with Grok3 on April 15th, 2025 seeking advice for adding quotation marks to make the transcripts accurate for reading. Description: Use advanced AI language models (like Grok 3, GPT-4, ...

Open any social media site today, and you’ll find a slew of tweets, shorts, messages, videos, photos, and more — almost all written with lower capital letters and barely any punctuation. For me, that ...