so what’s the deal with question marks online is the collective Internet too lazy to use the Shift key does anybody even care I pose these questions, such as they are, because lately in my Twitter ...

Commas, semicolons and question marks are so commonplace it seems as if they were always there – but that’s not the case. Keith Houston explains their history. As readers and writers, we’re intimately ...

Word, word, word, word, word, punctuation mark. This is how we read. Sometimes there are more words, or fewer. Occasionally additional marks—commas, em-dashes—enter the mix. But that’s pretty much how ...

Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. Last week, we discussed the various ways of punctuating the following sentence: His question “How do I get enough to eat ...

Ben Duke, of Philadelphia, has sent me a photograph of the front of a store in Brierly Hall, England. The sign reads: Ben calls this signage “The Four Aprostrophe’s of the Apocalypse” and informs me ...

While we all slip up from time to time, there are some basic punctuation mistakes you should never make in formal writing. For example, don't confuse "it's" and "its," don't use an apostrophe to ...

I’ve been taking the train lately. It’s just three quarters of a mile from my house and arrives just a half mile from my destination. My route requires me to buy just four passes a day for a total of ...