SOME British readers might wonder why a London-based publication uses double inverted commas like "these". And some American readers may wonder why commas and full stops (er, periods) sometimes appear ...

AS THE question implies, to describe quotation marks as inverted commas is only half true. The reason is that printed characters have evolved from hand scripts. If you draw curved quotation marks by ...

One of the difficulties about punctuation is that a lot of it is down to personal preference or “style”. And that isn’t just a recent thing, to be blamed on textspeak and the belief that the world is ...

Speaker 1: Commas are punctuation marks that are vital for helping us to be understood correctly. Speaker 2: (TO OTHER PEOPLE) Can you believe I wrote that on my dating profile? Speaker 1: Hobbies and ...