This little piece of punctuation has been labelled 'aberrant', 'troublesome' and 'ambivalent' and is regularly embarrassed in ...

Hi there,<BR><BR>at my company we still use Word 97, so far without too much trouble.<BR>Now, after moving, we see a problem with automatic corrections of straight quotes. Word seems to replace all ...

In French, to show that someone possesses something, you use their word for “of,” which is “de”: La plume de ma tante. Spanish works the same way: La venganza de Moctezuma. Italian, too: Buca di Beppo ...

This week’s column was going to be about the “campaign to abolish the apostrophe.” I decided on the topic last week while surfing the net for grammar- and punctuation-related news. That’s when I came ...