Dar es Salaam. We’ll open the 2026 inaugural article with our favourite peeve: concern over lack of punctuation sense amongst our people. And professional scribblers aren’t an exception.I share ...

New York City Mayor Eric Adams shared a video on his final day in office reading his "go-to quotes" off a coffee mug.

Dreyfus's 'Seinfeld' character, Elaine Benes, says a hilarious and underrated quote in Season 1, Episode 4, "The Male ...

In short, “Israel” in quotation marks hints at the desired outcome: genocide. Only it would not count as genocide. Since, ...

Despite OpenAI's bold claims of widespread improvements, GPT-5.2 feels largely the same as the model it replaces. Google, ...

President Donald Trump has installed plaques underneath portraits of presidents at the White House, using them to insult and make unfounded claims about some of his predecessors including Joe Biden ...

It's divisive; it cleaves; it drives some people crazy. The writer Kurt Vonnegut said of the semicolon: It's showy; it's chiefly used to show you've been to college. More than two-thirds of young ...

The debate about ChatGPT’s use of the em dash signifies a shift in not only how we write, but what writing is for. By Nitsuh Abebe There are countless signals you might look for to determine whether a ...

Is nothing sacred anymore? Now we can’t even text — text, the thing millennials practically invented on T9 keyboards — without being called out by Gen Z. The generation who banned skinny jeans and ...

The first reported use of the semicolon was in the essay "De Aetna," pictured in part here, by Pietro Bembo and published by Aldus Manutius in the 1490s. Aldus Manutius, Pietro Bembo The semicolon has ...