Andrea Cammalleri of Middletown, Ohio, fought the law ... with a comma and the comma won! Cammalleri got a traffic ticket back in 2014 in the village of West Jefferso when she parked her pickup truck in a zone th...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/07/02/Fight-Traffic-Ticket-with-Grammar/It seems like you're never going to get people to... ...en again, it's not the most important argument in punctuation use. Jorge Cham at PhD Comics explains punctuation in a modern way that anyone with college experien...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/11/01/The-Oxford-Comma-and-Other-Punctuation-Marks/[http://youtu.be/ptM7FzyjtRk] (YouTube link)The Oxford comma has sparked many an internet argument. Everyone seems to have an opinion, and everyone is convinced their way is the only correct way. What really matters is t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/03/17/TED-Ed-Addresses-the-Oxford-Comma/There are strange things happening in the news lately ..or are there?Peter de Silva posted this screenshot and got arguments from all sides. Some languages do not use the Oxford, or serial, comma and take the series from...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/12/11/Why-We-Need-the-Oxford-Comma/September 24th is National Punctuation Day, celebrated since 2004. At the National Punctuation Day official website, you can learn about differe... ...y official website, you can learn about different punctuation marks and their usage, submit a picture of bad *strong class="...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/09/24/Happy-National-Punctuation-Day/Mike Trapp at College Humor has a whole set of new marks we should just be able to slap over someone else's typing whenever someone is wrong on the internet. The misuse of the word "literally" gets under my skin, but the...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/07/10/9-Proofreading-Marks-for-Correcting-People-on-the-Internet/Punctuation adds a lot of clarity and meaning to our writing.... ...n we add more? There are quite a few lesser-known punctuation marks we should be using to dress up our essays,...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/10/05/13-Little-Known-Punctuation-Marks-We-Should-Be-Using/September 24th is National Punctuation Day. Happy punctuating! I found this out by visit... ...a cake, or often more than one cake. For National Punctuation Day, they have six cakes and one cake-related sig... ...one cake-related sign, all featuring some kind of punctuation...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/09/24/National-Punctuation-Day/Exclamation points are useful for communicating em... ...ul for communicating emphasis! But where did this punctuation mark come from?!The current running theory is tha...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/08/26/A-History-of-the-Exclamation-Point/You know period, comma, semicolon, asterisk, e... ...emicolon, asterisk, etc. but there are a lot more punctuation marks. Can you name some that we don't use all th... ...e all that often? Easier still, can you match the punctuation mark with its proper name? That's the challenge i...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/04/02/lesser-known-punctuation-marks/