The semicolon does not draw a sentence to a close. It holds its breath, waiting for the next clause to continue the message of the first. In the same way, the semicolon is not dead; it merely waits ...

In case you've faced some hurdles solving the clue, Punctuation seen on digital alarm clocks, we've got the answer for you. Crossword puzzles offer a fantastic opportunity to engage your mind, enjoy ...

'The apostrophe's chequered history poses enormous challenges not only for learners of English, but clearly for native speakers too'. Photo: Alamy What did the apostrophe ever do to deserve this? To ...

If you have been walking the punctuational fine line with your exclamation points – teetering between “I’m-mad-at-you” on the one hand and “I’m-crazy” on the other – join the club. I mean, join the ...

Currently, when trying to move the cursor by an entire word when the text is of Chinese (or CJK in general? untested) script, cosmic-text only moves by 1 character, instead of the entire text until ...

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 ...

Some expressions are hard to punctuate. Take the phrase “How about that”; too sprightly for a plain ordinary . , it is sometimes too ironic to justify an ebullient ! . More often than not, isn’t it ...

In the escalating arms race between AI models like ChatGPT and human beings trying to determine if what they’re reading was machine-generated, there is no easy or surefire way to spot the bot — or is ...