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Some once common punctuation marks have fallen out of fashion ... Five words that have changed their meaning Why we used to call serious people 'silly' - and other language curiosities.

The Romans and the Ancient Greeks didn’t use punctuation at ... impact – one exclamation mark is usually enough! Using exclamation marks incorrectly reduces their impact and value.

Continue this pattern, using closing quotation marks only at the very end of the quoted material. Placement with other punctuation: A period or comma always go inside closing quotation marks. ("We hope to win the game," he said.) A dash, semicolon ...

Not all football club names are created equal. Nick Miller goes on a journey into the teams that stand out from the crowd

If punctuation ... end their messages with no period or a dash, she said. She also told me that while she and most of her contemporaries in their 20s think favorably of the exclamation mark ...