As 2025 winds down, June Casagrande writes about the correct punctuation for all the holidays to come in 2026.

Nick Blackmer is a librarian, fact-checker, and researcher with more than 20 years of experience in consumer-facing health and wellness content. Research suggests that it may take far fewer than ...

AI's frequent use of em dashes is changing how people write. Many now avoid these punctuation marks to sound more human and less robotic. This trend highlights a new anxiety around writing, as perfect ...

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A Variety headline posted on social media drew some laughs recently. “Trammell Tillman on ‘Severance’ Delays, Coming Out as Gay and Tom Cruise.” “He’s gay AND Tom Cruise?” one observer mused. “He ...

I was reading a newspaper headline the other day and it referenced an event as being the “first annual.” It was grating, probably because I had just read a George Will column about “misapplied or worn ...

The first reported use of the semicolon was in the essay "De Aetna," pictured in part here, by Pietro Bembo and published by Aldus Manutius in the 1490s. Aldus Manutius, Pietro Bembo The semicolon has ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Darryn King writes about arts and culture of all kinds. I fell in love with Proper Cloth at first sight. First sight of a corduroy ...

Conor McGregor is being dropped by Proper No. 12, the Irish whiskey empire he helped construct, the company announced Tuesday. The decision comes just days after the fighter was found liable in an ...