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I never meant for the numbering of these posts to have any significance other than to tell them apart, but it’s still gratifying to have hit the century after (checks notes) a mere eleven years and si...

From its ignoble beginnings a century after Tiro’s scholarly et, the ampersand assumed its now-familiar ‘&’ form with remarkable speed even as the Tironian et stayed rigidly immutable. The symbol’s v...

This is the first in a series of two posts on The @-symbol. Continue to PART 2 or view ALL POSTS in the series. Like the ampersand, the ‘@’ symbol is not strictly a mark of punctuation; rather, it is ...

This is the first of three posts in a series on Irony & Sarcasm Marks. Continue to PART 2 or view ALL POSTS in the series. If the multiplicity of irony marks created over the centuries suggests anythi...