One of our all-time most viewed posts on the UC blog is Don Burrows’ Romans 1:26-27: A Clobber Passage That Should Lose Its Wallop. Drawing upon the work of Calvin Porter, Burrows argues that Romans 1 ...

I do not know who first observed the difference between “Let’s eat, Grandma,” with a comma, and “Let’s eat Grandma,” without. One version expresses a relatively polite invitation to dinner; the other ...

Quotation marks seem straightforward. If you’re recounting exactly what someone else said, it should be in quotation marks. Easy, right? That part is simple enough. But where does the punctuation mark ...

Everyone knows that the world’s material resources — food, water, oil — are distributed unequally, but few realize that the same is true for punctuation. Take quotation marks: Some forms of writing, ...

AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster: the founder of National Punctuation Day. RS: Sunday was the day for a "celebration of the lowly comma, correctly used quotes and ...

Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. We haven’t talked about what to do when punctuation marks collide. But the opportunity arose in a query from a friend ...