Semicolon use is down, and its slide is making headlines. In the U.S., these punctuation marks are appearing in published ...

An NYU team uses machine learning to analyze neural activity data and uncover how speech is produced. In a recent paper ...

For example, did you know the longest word in English is 189,819 letters long? It’s also known for long sentences, especially ...

Spell check clearly needs to get its priorities straight; punctuation can save lives, and yet spell check won’t flag that ...

In a sign of the AI times, columnist and author June Casagrande asks ChatGPT to write a grammar book inspired by her style.

Nearly 6,000 people convicted of drug trafficking in the 2021 budget year alone are in the pool of those who might be eligible for reduced sentences, according to data.

Microsoft Word by default has certain grammar and spelling corrections turned on, such as automatically capitalizing the first letter of every sentence.

Scanning, scrolling, and swiping: New research uncovers why our brains are effective at quickly processing short messages Our brains detect basic sentence structure nearly as quickly as they ...

The scans revealed that the brain's left temporal cortex — part of the organ's outermost layer that's key for understanding language — showed higher activity for three-word sentences than ...

At the most extreme, some forms of constrained writing are even more self-limiting and end up being very, very constrained indeed.

EVANSVILLE — A judge reduced former Evansville school board member Amy Word's felony conviction for maintaining a common nuisance to a misdemeanor Monday and sentenced Word to serve nine months ...