Denis Defreyne

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

Up: Ideas for non-fiction writing

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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