The Pedant’s Guide to Punctuation
Purpose: Quotation marks, apostrophes, primes, hyphens, minuses, dashes, oh my. They’re often used incorrectly, both grammatically and typographically. It could be interesting to write up a comprehensive article that covers them end to end.
Random ideas:
- Orthography vs. grammar/spelling
Commas
- To do: address comma splice
Semicolons
- To do
Periods
- To do
- To do: Elipsis
Colons
- To do
Dashes and hyphens
- To do: hyphen
- To do: minus
- To do: hyphen-minus (eww)
- To do: en dash
- To do: em dash (spaced or not?)
- To do: two-em dash (disguise a name) and three-em dash (repeat bibliography)
- To do: horizontal bar / quotation dash
- To do: figure dash (???)
- To do: soft hyphen
- To do: non-breaking hyphen
Quotation marks
- To do: straight
- To do: curved/curly
- To do: prime
- To do: multi-paragraph quotations
- To do: quotation dash
Brackets
- To do: greater-than/less than
- To do: angle brackets
- To do: guillemets