Celebrate, celebrate, punctuate to the music! Today is “National Punctuation Day,” billed as “A celebration of the lowly comma, correctly used quotes and other proper uses of periods, semicolons and ...

It never should have happened. The seventh annual National Punctuation Day has come and gone. Somehow, it slipped by without notice Sept. 24. National Punctuation Day, or NPD, is the holiday that ...

Yes, there is a day devoted to punctuation. Proper punctuation can make all of the difference in the world when you are trying to get your point across. There is a difference between "Let's eat, Daddy ...

During the newspaper design revolution of the 1980s and 90s, writers often made fun of white space. Bad idea, scribes. Inside the text, white space is a writer’s and a reader’s best friend. White ...

The Chicago Reader copyediting division would like to inform you—in fact, we’ve just learned ourselves—that tomorrow is National Punctuation Day, according to some site on the Internet. This is a ...

Punctuation matters! It’s National Punctuation Day and we are taking the opportunity to look at the role punctuation plays in language. The pandemic has changed everything, including our language.

Like it or not, we now live in a world of LOL OMG ROFL, where lots of highly educated people have thrown spelling and grammar to the wayside in favor of laziness and saving time. But one man has never ...

When is it proper to use semicolon? What about ellipses? Those are the types of questions organizers of National Punctuation Day want people to consider today. Today is the seventh annual celebration ...