Everyone knows that the world’s material resources — food, water, oil — are distributed unequally, but few realize that the same is true for punctuation. Take quotation marks: Some forms of writing, ...

I’ve gotten a lot of emails recently about where to put periods and commas relative to quotation marks. The notes were prompted by a recent column in which I mentioned that, in American English, a ...

Love it or hate it, composition professors report seeing an uptick in students' intentional use of single quotation marks outside their traditional context. Disclaimer: The following material may be ...