We're using semicolons less and less; the apostrophe still stumps most of us. Meanwhile, @, #, :, ) have new meanings and are performing new roles. Take a look.

New symbols are being designed; old marks are serving new purposes. And collectives are actively working to preserve the ...

“Your emails are often the best—and sometimes only—demonstration of the quality of your communication skills,” says ...

Dakota Albritton is from tiny Ellaville, Ga. His Schley County High School baseball team played for a state championship at Savannah’s Historic Grayson Stadium in 2019. Albritton thought he had hung ...

Choz Cunningham created a punctuation mark with a similar purpose and called it the “Snark Mark”, he used a period followed by a tilde (.~) at the end of a sentence to indicate snark or a sarcastic ...

National Punctuation Day commemorates all punctuation on September 24. A period, a comma, a semicolon, a question mark, and an exclamation point are examples of some of the punctuation used in writing ...

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 ...

I live in a three-generation household. My wife and I, our son and daughter, and my in-laws share a single house in the Long Island suburbs. Our place is big, but crowded: all of us have hobbies, and ...

Rules respond to threats like sabotage, natural disasters Companies must assess risks, enhance security or face fines Berlin, September 10 (Reuters) - The German government approved new rules on ...

Senate Republicans used what is known as the nuclear option to break a Democratic blockade of President Trump’s nominees, weakening Congress’s vetting role. By Michael Gold Reporting from the Capitol ...

Republicans jammed through a change to Senate rules on Thursday that will allow them to more quickly confirm many of President Donald Trump’s nominees. The move came over the objections of Democrats ...

Members of the U.S. House of Representatives unanimously passed a bill Monday that would force the Federal Aviation Administration to make a sweeping overhaul of what critics call antiquated pilot ...