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By all means congratulate yourself that you are not a pedant or even a stickler; that you are happily equipped to live in a world of plummeting punctuation standards; but just don’t bother to go ...

Correct punctuation is second only to correct pronunciation in the English language. Correct spelling helps, too. And grammar has to be in the mix somewhere. Punctuation Made Easy, an interactive ...

His response to this anxiety is to explain calmly but firmly how punctuation rules came to be ... Crystal wrote to me that “very few older kids in the UK use txtese abbreviations now.

A few years back I set out to write a comprehensive punctuation book — one that laid out the rules for proper punctuation in every situation imaginable. How naïve I was. You don’t have to ...