Most great writers agonise over punctuation. Oscar Wilde wrote that revising one of his poems took a day: the morning to take ...

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This lavishly researched book shows that dots and dashes are an essential component of style, whether you’re a medieval monk or Donald Trump ...

Shocking! Women use exclamation marks three times more often than men, according to a new study. Punctuation is a “fraught and contentious business”, said Melanie McDonagh in London’s The Standard.

Six centuries after its invention, the humble ! peppers private messages and public announcements, provoking both joy and fury. Imagine getting worked up about a comma or a full stop!!! The ...

We all know how important punctuation marks are in our scripts, because punctuation fills our writing with expression. We pause, stop, emphasise, or question using a comma, a period, an exclamation ...

Only Slate Plus members can gift Slate stories. Become a member to share 10 free articles a month. Word, word, word, word, word, punctuation mark. This is how we read. Sometimes there are more words, ...

The 45th President of the United States is a big fan of a particular type of punctuation – but what does this addiction really mean? Philip Cowell finds out. There is really only one rule when it ...

“Thank you!!! We appreciate your business!!” writes a breathless customer service agent. “I’m sooo sorry!!!” writes an administrative assistant after making ...