All the fuss about AI and the em dash offers an opportunity to rethink the overuse of this most beloved but mostly ...

There are different ways to phrase this sentiment. The idea is to let the other person know that the feelings they’re having are logical and understandable. That’s another way to make them feel ...

"You still had to prove yourself." "Every cloud has a blue lining!" Which of those sentences are you most likely to remember ...

A recent headline in Variety, “Trammell Tillman on ‘Severance’ Delays, Coming Out as Gay and Tom Cruise” prompted grammar ...

Twice in my two years in the Vermont House, I cut off constituents mid-sentence. Both times, the person said some variation ...

Have you ever stared at a sprawling Excel spreadsheet, wondering how to make sense of the chaos? For many, Excel formulas feel like a secret language, powerful yet elusive. But here’s the truth: ...

The # has a name you’d never guess. Developed for touch-tone telephones in 1968, that little hex is called an octothorpe.

Semicolon use by Americans has dropped by 51% since the early 2000s to once every 378 words; younger Americans say they still value it.

The future of the em dash — and the elements of style more broadly — is in our hands. Let us be a beacon for writers everywhere and keep the shift-option-hyphen in our toolboxes.

These one-on-one conversations with your baby matter, and they especially make a difference for babies with hearing loss. Baby talk vs. parentese. Parentese is how you talk to you ...

A woman was sentenced to life in prison for feeding her family a dish that contained toxic mushrooms. Three people died and another was sickened. Erin Patterson, 50, was sentenced to life in prison ...