LONDON — Like the fissionable atom, punctuation marks are wee items capable of causing a tremendous release of energy. Passionate disagreement over the use of exclamation points is so familiar ...

Gen Z doesn't like your punctuation (or your capital letters) when texting.

There's one punctuation mark Gen Z wants you to stop using. Here's what it is—and why it's falling out of favor.

A joke about punctuation has been chosen as the funniest in a competition run by the Beano comic. Youngsters from Year 5 at Riverley Primary School in Leyton, London, won the accolade, with their ...

That is the power of punctuation. Here are essential rules to help you use punctuation marks accurately and effectively in your writing.

This punctuation belongs to the people and the very "literature it was trained on". Suspicion of the em dash "speaks to our mounting paranoia about automated communication", said Rolling Stone.

Are you being ironic or sarcastic? With periods, who knows? Clarify your messages with these handy yet uncommon punctuation marks.

Our best punctuation mark is dying out; people need to learn how to use it The poor, misunderstood semicolon is under threat. Helen Coffey laments its decline and makes the case for re-educating ...

Yes, that most elegant of punctuation marks – sitting elusively somewhere between an en-dash and a colon – is officially under threat. Its usage in English books has been slashed almost in half in the ...

Em dashes have been derided as the “ChatGPT hyphen” — a punctuation mark overused by artificial intelligence. That’s not quite true.

A research team from the Binghamton University, State University of New York, led by psychologist Celia Klin, has investigated how certain punctuation structures influence the emotional ...

Full Stop Punctuation, or Typing “.” into YouTube, was a glitch in YouTube’s search function in the mid-00s which brought otherwise unlisted search results to the top of the page. The ...