We all know how important punctuation marks are in our scripts, because punctuation fills our writing with expression. We pause, stop, emphasise, or question using a comma, a period, an exclamation ...

It’s easy to take punctuation for granted after seeing commas, question marks and periods your whole life, but the reality is, punctuation is quite interesting, and some of the facts about it might ...

There are three wicketkeepers, not just one, involved in this game the full-stop or the period (.), the exclamation mark (!), and the question mark. The basic function of these end-of-the-sentence ...

The question mark, said Gertrude Stein, is “positively revolting”. She thought the exclamation mark was “ugly” and “unnecessary” too. Cormac McCarthy shuns the semi-colon and quotation marks. At times ...

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 ...

Several writers and inventors in the last century tried to introduce new marks of punctuation into the English language – but they all failed. Keith Houston tells their story. In the 1930s and ’40s, ...