Throughout the ages, languages continue to adapt and change. English, being a relatively new language, is a nice example of that. Though the English vocabulary is continually evolving, the system of punctuation has remained constant for the most part. This means that grammar books from 1895 are still applicable today. Therefore, if the following sentence looks correct to you, perhaps listening to Paul Allardyce’s “Stops, or How to Punctuate” would be a good idea.
Latest episodes of the podcast Stops, or How To Punctuate by Paul Allardyce
- 01 – Introduction
- 02 – The Full Stop
- 03 – The Comma
- 04 – The Semicolon
- 05 – The Colon
- 06 – The Point of Interrogation
- 07 – The Mark of Exclamation
- 08 – The Dash
- 09 – Brackets
- 10 – The Inverted Comma
- 11 – Italics
- 12 – The Hyphen
- 13 – The Apostrophe
- 14 – Mark of Ellipses
- 15 – Reference to Notes
- 16 – How to Correct a Printer’s Proof