Anyone who knows, or intuitively understands, that two words describing a noun are hyphenated ends up writing some compounds ...

A few years back I set out to write a comprehensive punctuation book — one that laid out the rules for proper punctuation in every situation imaginable. How naïve I was. You don’t have to spend a lot ...

The em dash, one of the most versatile punctuation marks in English, has become widely associated with AI-generated text ...

A moment's hesitation... Yes, a full stop here – but shouldn’t there be a comma there? Or would a hyphen be better? Punctuation can be a nuisance; it is often simply neglected. Wrong! The most recent ...