The dash is the Kim Kardashian of punctuation marks: misplaced, over-exposed, shamelessly self-promoting, always eager to elbow out her jealous sisters the comma, colon, and semicolon. My friend and ...

Gen Z: I am — and I don’t say this lightly — so busy. Boomer: What’s with all the dashes? Is Morse code having a moment? Em dashes are a vibe. One X user calls them the ‘coolest punctuation ever’ — ...

For as long as I can remember, I’ve been giving this note to my editing clients: “Replace floating hyphen with proper em dash.” It comes up when I’m proofreading images, like PDFs, and I see a hyphen ...

I still think about the feedback I got on one of my first history essays in high school: “good writing, but you rely too much ...

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 ...