“People don’t know why they get so upset about language,” David Crystal told me recently, over Skype from his home in Wales. “ ‘Potato’s,’ with an apostrophe ‘S,’ ” he offered, as an example of the ...

National Punctuation Day is celebrated every year in the US on September 24. INSIDER combed through Twitter to find people's punctuation pet peeves. Never confuse dashes with hyphens, misuse ...

If you hang out with anyone under 30, you might have noticed that punctuation has been getting a bad rap lately, especially when it comes to texting. While putting a period at the end of a sentence ...