A few years ago while copy editing an article, I was shocked to see something like this: “I lecture my sales staff about what I call ‘me syndrome,’” Jones said. What shocked me was the punctuation.

What are news readers to make of quotation marks in an article or headline? It seems a simple question, but this punctuation occasionally causes a misimpression. The issue arose recently after The ...

This is the Grammar Guy column, a weekly feature written by Curtis Honeycutt. I can think of a few things off the top of my head that I hope never to use: math, a fire extinguisher, Pepto Bismol and ...

We often focus on choosing the right words when we write—but how often do we think about punctuation? These small symbols—dots, commas, dashes, and more—do more than decorate our sentences. They guide ...

Have you ever gone on Google Search to find websites on a pretty specific topic and the search results ended up being not what you needed? It can be quite a hassle when the seemingly all-knowing ...