Semicolon use by Americans has dropped by 51% since the early 2000s to once every 378 words; younger Americans say they still ...

We're using semicolons less and less; the apostrophe still stumps most of us. Meanwhile, @, #, :, ) have new meanings and are performing new roles. Take a look.

It's divisive; it cleaves; it drives some people crazy. The writer Kurt Vonnegut said of the semicolon: It's showy; it's chiefly used to show you've been to college. More than two-thirds of young ...

In the long run, the hope may be that Mr. Trump becomes so preoccupied with other issues that he mostly forgets about us ...

All the fuss about AI and the em dash offers an opportunity to rethink the overuse of this most beloved but mostly ...

Shri Birla highlighted that one of the most common issues in law-making arises when a “grey area” in legislative drafting ...

The # has a name you’d never guess. Developed for touch-tone telephones in 1968, that little hex is called an octothorpe.

National Punctuation Day commemorates all punctuation on September 24. A period, a comma, a semicolon, a question mark, and an exclamation point are examples of some of the punctuation used in writing ...

New symbols are being designed; old marks are serving new purposes. And collectives are actively working to preserve the correct uses of the dots and squiggles.

FOR this Nostalgia edition we wanted to take a look at literacy in schools on National Punctuation Day.