This might be an unpopular opinion, but I have said that I stand by the Oxford Comma. When the great debates about the Oxford Comma rage, I rush to its defense. I very much believe the Oxford Comma is ...

Forget black rhinos and the Amazon rainforest: there’s something arguably just as precious joining the endangered species list, only this time, it’s a grammatical rather than biological extinction ...

Discord allows you to strikethrough text, as well as format your messages in bold, italics, or underlines. Here's how.

The Jaramogi Oginga Odinga University of Science and Technology will confer an honorary degree on Raila Odinga in December. That, as the justification goes, is because of his exemplary work.

Punctuation marks may be small, but they carry a lot of weight—shaping tone, clarifying meaning and even signaling the writer’s personality. I adore the em dash; I tend to be a bit of a drama queen ...

Recently in this space we talked about how, when two punctuation marks bump up against each other, one can sometimes preclude the other. For example, a phrase that would normally be followed by a ...

Yes, there is a real difference between a hyphen vs. dash. And here's how these tiny marks can make a big difference in your writing. When you’re writing by hand, a hyphen and a dash can look pretty ...

Notice anything wrong with those quotation marks, shown during NBC's broadcast of the Winter Olympics? They're wrong in a really bizarre way, so wrong that they offend columnist John Kelly. (John ...

If you’ve spent the weekend enjoying a good book in the May sun, you might not have been thinking about mathematics. But if you were reading a book in a Western language, there’s a good chance that ...