A lot of people are taught that a comma goes anywhere you want to indicate a pause. On the surface, that system appears to work out fine. Commas often do just that. But not always. Following this ...

Punctuation. It accompanies our written form of language. It helps us to better understand things when we read them. Let's take this phrase as an example. Without punctuation it is a dangerous ...

A few weeks ago I mentioned in this space that serial commas, also called Oxford commas, are a matter of style. So either "red, white and blue" or "red, white, and blue" can be correct depending on ...

Aldus Manutius would be so proud. The Italian printer left us more than five centuries ago, but he likely would have loved how a missing comma recently helped an Ohio woman get a parking violation ...

Robert Frost wrote his famous poem “Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening” in mid-June, 1922. He’d been up all the short night working on a long poem “New Hampshire.” By early morning he was exhausted.

Jacqueline Murray is professor emerita of history at the University of Guelph. Pity the humble comma no more. This most ignored, misused and abused of punctuation marks is now in the headlines and has ...

What's your position on the Oxford comma? Atrocious. It can be blamed for illiteracy nationwide. The Oxford comma—also known as the “Harvard comma” or the “snooty comma”—is the comma that precedes the ...

After all that contemplation, the conclusion is drawn that we would be better off … if we did not have the comma, so we are proposing to remove it.” STAY STUBBORN — There was a shout-out for Ladysmith ...