SOME British readers might wonder why a London-based publication uses double inverted commas like "these". And some American readers may wonder why commas and full stops (er, periods) sometimes appear ...

One person opposed to gay marriage tried to intervene in the discussion, claiming it's right to ignore others' marital status because you disagree with their choice of partner. @NickyAACampbell I ...

Reporting other people’s speeches or writings is a technical exercise in which punctuation marks play strategic roles. Whether it is in direct speech or the indirect, punctuation marks such as the ...

Brute force: Forest Whitaker's Oscar-winning performance as Idi Amin in The Last King of Scotland. I'm delighted that Forest Whitaker has won an Oscar for his playing of Idi Amin in the adaptation of ...

For as long as I can remember, we, the Bangladeshi people, have struggled to understand where our inverted commas should go. This I have observed in my students’ argumentative essays -- “My name is ...

I would have been happier, if the government had kept economic growth a parallel agenda along with political issues. As a service sector businessman, I see lack of prioritisation as the basic problem ...

All hopes are pinned on the Constituent Assembly (CA) polls. God forbid if there’s any disturbance, the country will plunge into a massive civil war. But if all goes well and the elections are held ...