How to Use Hyphen, En Dash, and Em Dash in Descriptive Writing for Govt Exams

Learn the difference between hyphen, en dash, and em dash with simple rules and examples. It improves clarity, accuracy, and ...
The New Yorker

A History of Punctuation for the Internet Age

“People don’t know why they get so upset about language,” David Crystal told me recently, over Skype from his home in Wales. “ ‘Potato’s,’ with an apostrophe ‘S,’ ” he offered, as an example of the ...
The Globe and Mail

Punctuation with style in the digital age

Emmy J. Favilla is Global Copy Chief and creator of the BuzzFeed Style Guide and author of A World Without “Whom”: The Essential Guide to Language in the BuzzFeed Age. If a friend texts me with a ...
Slate

The Rise and Fall of the Pilcrow, Part I

The following is the first of three excerpts from Keith Houston’s new book, Shady Characters: The Secret Life of Punctuation, Symbols, and Other Typographical Marks. The orthographic world of ancient ...
Dawn

literary notes: Punctuation and Urdu: what, when, where and why?

WHAT is punctuation? According to Concise Oxford English Dictionary, punctuation means “marks, such as full stop, comma and brackets, used in writing to separate sentences and their elements and ...