SOME British readers might wonder why a London-based publication uses double inverted commas like "these". And some American readers may wonder why commas and full stops (er, periods) sometimes appear ...

One of the difficulties about punctuation is that a lot of it is down to personal preference or “style”. And that isn’t just a recent thing, to be blamed on textspeak and the belief that the world is ...

You know you're growing up when you lose patience with "inverted commas". I mean in speech rather than in writing. In writing, they remain very useful: how else could we tell the difference between a ...