New symbols are being designed; old marks are serving new purposes. And collectives are actively working to preserve the correct use of the dots and squiggles.

We’re using semicolons less and less; the apostrophe still stumps most of us. Meanwhile, @, #, :, ) have taken on new meanings. Take a look.

Donald Trump faced online mockery for a Truth Social post misrepresenting Uzbekistan's Boeing deal. He mistakenly wrote that ...

Henry W. Fowler believed he knew how sentences should read—and his judgments have shaped The New Yorker’s style for a century ...

Once a stylistic flourish, the em dash is now an AI tell, sparking debates on LinkedIn about authenticity and writing style.

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

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

The Illinois Department of Corrections is making changes to their mail system after labor union reports said workers were ...

The proliferation of the grammatical device is closely correlated with the rise of large language models. But don’t forget, they learn from us ...

Example: I went to the beach, and I got a sunburn. The two independent clauses in this sentence are “I went to the beach” and “I got a sunburn.” The coordinating conjunction is “and.” Other ...

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