While some tales about errant commas are naught but invention (such as the yarn about the reply to a jewelry-seeking wife's inquiry in which the meaning of the response was altered from the ...

This is how Lilly learned to love the comma. Like Lilly, most people don’t think about punctuation or its connection to writing well. Yet those little dots and squiggles provide important tools ...

Fear not the semicolon; Thursday is National Punctuation Day! It is time to celebrate the commonplace comma, the overexcitable exclamation point and, yes, even the lowly period. Jeff Rubin ...

At The New Yorker, it is a copy editor’s duty to deploy the serial comma, along with lots of other lip-smacking bits of punctuation, as a bulwark against barbarianism. While advocates of the ...