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 ...
“There’s not much to be said about the period except that most writers don’t reach it soon enough,” wrote William Zinsser in “On Writing Well.” It’s true that most sentences should be shorter. But ...
Commas, semicolons and question marks are so commonplace it seems as if they were always there – but that’s not the case. Keith Houston explains their history. As readers and writers, we’re intimately ...
Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. Last week, we discussed the various ways of punctuating the following sentence: His question “How do I get enough to eat ...
Ben Duke, of Philadelphia, has sent me a photograph of the front of a store in Brierly Hall, England. The sign reads: Ben calls this signage “The Four Aprostrophe’s of the Apocalypse” and informs me ...
I’ve been taking the train lately. It’s just three quarters of a mile from my house and arrives just a half mile from my destination. My route requires me to buy just four passes a day for a total of ...
Commas, semicolons and question marks are so commonplace it seems as if they were always there – but that’s not the case. Keith Houston explains their history. As readers and writers, we’re intimately ...
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