Showing posts with label Punctuation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Punctuation. Show all posts

Friday, September 17, 2021

Comma Sutra: a Guide to All the Possible
 Positions a Comma Can Have in a Sentence

Monday, December 02, 2019

Apostrophe Man Joins the Ranks of the Homeless
Apostrophe Protection Society Goes Dark, 
Furloughs Apostrophe Man

Monday, April 24, 2017

Angry Bird

Tuesday, November 03, 2015

Coming Soon to a Theatre Near You #123
The Fixer: When an Exclamation Point
Is Simply Not Enough

Friday, October 07, 2011

Asterisks can spice up the most innocent of words. Take, for
example, 'f**k'. No, it's not at all what your dirty mind
is thinking.

Saturday, January 15, 2011

Putting two spaces after a period is driving Farhad Manjoo
crazy.  Let's start putting three spaces after a period and
see what happens.

Wednesday, November 24, 2010

"Aha, just as I thought!  The dummy used
 a colon instead of a semi-colon!"

Thursday, September 09, 2010

With less than two months left in the 2010
election campaign, the Exclamation Point is
leading the Question Mark by a wide margin,
with the Semi-Colon coming in a distant third.

Tuesday, September 26, 2006

"No, Mr. President, it wouldn't have helped if you had said
the Iraq war will be viewed as just a semicolon."