The Romans and the Ancient Greeks didn’t use punctuation at all. They didn’t even have gaps between words. This is called scriptio continua, writing as one continuous string of capital letters, so ...

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 ...

Teenagers are abandoning basic grammar and punctuation and resorting to text message slang in A-levels and GCSEs, examiners have revealed. They reported that capital letters were used ‘erratically’ in ...

You’ve probably heard the joke about the panda who “eats, shoots and leaves” versus one who “eats shoots and leaves.” One comma changes a violent panda into a vegetarian one. Funny? Yes. But in the ...