Write the “the Pedant’s Guide to Punctuation” article

Defreyne, Denis

Write the “the Pedant’s Guide to Punctuation” article

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

Note last edited April 2025.

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