em dash, en dash – The em dash is the long dash used in punctuation whose length is based on the width of the letter M; the en dash is shorter (the width of an N) and the hyphen is even shorter. More…
punctual – From Latin punctum, “point,” it can mean “pertaining to punctuation,” or “of or relating to a point in space.” More…
square brackets, parentheses, braces – Square brackets were formerly called crotchets, round brackets are commonly called parentheses, and curly brackets are called braces; the punctuation called brackets derives from the bookshelf type, implying that, in writing, these marks “lift up” a section of a sentence. More…
stigmeology – The art of punctuation. More…