Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. To manually insert smart quotes, the keyboard must have a numeric keypad, and you must activate the Num Lock key. To use the ...

This is the Grammar Guy column, a weekly feature written by Curtis Honeycutt. I can think of a few things off the top of my head that I hope never to use: math, a fire extinguisher, Pepto Bismol and ...

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.

What are news readers to make of quotation marks in an article or headline? It seems a simple question, but this punctuation occasionally causes a misimpression. The issue arose recently after The ...

I don’t remember when I first learned about single quotation marks, but I have a vague memory of assuming they were as useful as quotation marks, or close to it. Sometimes you quote someone. Sometimes ...