Have you seen that Mark Twain quote about fools who believe lies? The quote has gone viral on Twitter, but Twain never actually said it. And that’s kind of funny, when you consider Twitter CEO Elon ...

A few years ago while copy editing an article, I was shocked to see something like this: “I lecture my sales staff about what I call ‘me syndrome,’” Jones said. What shocked me was the punctuation.

Picture this: A music reviewer makes a reference to the song “Space Truckin’” by Deep Purple. You want to quote him on it. Specifically, you want to quote a sentence in which the writer just happened ...

Mark Twain, celebrated for "Tom Sawyer" and "Huckleberry Finn," is widely credited with a quote linking the fear of death to ...

To manually insert smart quotes, the keyboard must have a numeric keypad, and you must activate the Num Lock key. To use the numeric codes, press and hold the Alt key, then type the four-digit ...