Ah, the em dash. No matter if you're a novice writer or a seasoned one, you're likely more than familiar with this ...

I was having a colonoscopy on New Year’s Eve, as one does, and I awake with the news that I might have cancer. Or I might not ...

Why should you write an exclamatory expression—or one that show strong feeling, excitement or surprise—without bothering to ...

Shocking! Women use exclamation marks three times more often than men, according to a new study. Punctuation is a “fraught and contentious business”, said Melanie McDonagh in London’s The Standard.

James Joyce's tome 'Finnegans Wake' famously breaks the rules of normal prose through its unusual, dreamlike stream of consciousness, and new work in chaos theory takes a closer look at how Joyce's ...

Beloved husband, father, and coach Henry Colon passed away from cancer in July. Colon was a passionate basketball coach who also coached football and track and field at various schools. He was ...

It's divisive; it cleaves; it drives some people crazy. The writer Kurt Vonnegut said of the semicolon: It's showy; it's chiefly used to show you've been to college. More than two-thirds of young ...

This week with fun facts from your library, I’m bringing you random but relevant information about punctuation and celebrating National Punctuation Day which is held on September 24 th every year.

I’m still a bit mad at Jedi: Fallen Order for erasing the Dark Forces timeline from canon Star Wars, but thinking about it, something had to be done about the colons. Star Wars Colon Dark Forces, then ...

Editor's note: This segment was rebroadcast on Jan. 2, 2026. Click here for that audio. The semicolon has been described as a "graceful pause" in writing. But this graceful punctuation mark is being ...