Today, Strikeout brings you a power ranking of 10 punctuation and typographical marks. This is by no means an exhaustive list of such symbols — these just happen to be the ones that showed up to the ...
Andrew Heisel’s Lexicon Valley article last year on single versus double quotation marks piqued the interest of Keith Houston, author of Shady Characters: The Secret Life of Punctuation, Symbols, and ...
Keith Houston’s 2013 book Shady Characters: The Secret Life of Punctuation, Symbols & Other Typographical Marks has a chapter on the surprisingly extensive historical effort to put forth a punctuation ...
The following is the first of three excerpts from Keith Houston’s new book, Shady Characters: The Secret Life of Punctuation, Symbols, and Other Typographical Marks. The orthographic world of ancient ...
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