Six centuries after its invention, the humble ! peppers private messages and public announcements, provoking both joy and fury. Imagine getting worked up about a comma or a full stop!!! The ...

One night last week, I explained to a youthful hotel desk clerk that my family and I were interested in playing cards up in our room, then asked her if the hotel had a deck. She made this sound:. Then ...

The only literary work about punctuation I'm aware of is an odd early story by Anton Chekhov called "The Exclamation Mark." After getting into an argument with a colleague about punctuation, a school ...