All the fuss about AI and the em dash offers an opportunity to rethink the overuse of this most beloved but mostly ...

Semicolon use by Americans has dropped by 51% since the early 2000s to once every 378 words; younger Americans say they still ...

There are different ways to phrase this sentiment. The idea is to let the other person know that the feelings they’re having are logical and understandable. That’s another way to make them feel ...

The debate about ChatGPT’s use of the em dash signifies a shift in not only how we write, but what writing is for.

Millennial Anna Gaddis took to TikTok to defend her generation’s habit, saying that those who criticize people using “lol” at ...

Twice in my two years in the Vermont House, I cut off constituents mid-sentence. Both times, the person said some variation ...

Have you ever stared at a sprawling Excel spreadsheet, wondering how to make sense of the chaos? For many, Excel formulas feel like a secret language, powerful yet elusive. But here’s the truth: ...

The # has a name you’d never guess. Developed for touch-tone telephones in 1968, that little hex is called an octothorpe.

The future of the em dash — and the elements of style more broadly — is in our hands. Let us be a beacon for writers everywhere and keep the shift-option-hyphen in our toolboxes.

A woman was sentenced to life in prison for feeding her family a dish that contained toxic mushrooms. Three people died and another was sickened. Erin Patterson, 50, was sentenced to life in prison ...