FAIRBANKS — You probably read about the South Carolina grocery store that refused to make a cake celebrating a young man’s high school summa cum laude honors unless the “cum” was replaced by three ...

I didn’t know how to write about the El Paso massacre because for two weeks I’ve been too angry at too many people. At the El Paso killer of 22 people who took aim and sprayed bullets inside a crowded ...

It’s a proven fact that as you get older you worry more about punctuation. Fussing about apostrophes and semicolons just comes with the territory. Thus, it’s no surprise that the other day our coffee ...

LONDON (Reuters) - About 16,000 words have succumbed to pressures of the Internet age and lost their hyphens in a new edition of the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary. Bumble-bee is now bumblebee, ice ...

Looking through some students’ scripts on Wednesday, I discovered there is a need to revisit the issue of the uses of the hyphen (-) and dash (—). Many still find it difficult to differentiate between ...

We summarize the history of the varied practices of hyphenating compound English names of birds to highlight taxonomic relationships. English names do not and can not reflect phylogenetic ...

It seems we're always declaring our great fondness for this punctuation mark or that one. Oh, the whimsical nature of the semicolon and how smart she makes us feel. Oh, the gorgeous curves of the ...

Google’s John Mueller answered a question on Reddit about why people don’t use hyphens with domains and if there was something to be concerned about that they were missing. I’ve been working online ...