punctuation: References & Edit History

Additional Reading

G.V. Carey, Mind the Stop, rev. ed. (1958, reissued 1976); and E.H. Partridge, You Have a Point There: A Guide to Punctuation and Its Allies (1953, reissued 1978), are traditional guides to modern punctuation as practiced in Britain; the latter is more exhaustive and includes a chapter on American practice by John W. Clark. A comparable American work is the chapter on punctuation in Wilma R. Ebbitt and David R. Ebbitt, Writer’s Guide and Index to English, 7th ed. (1982). The following describe the practices of two famous presses, Oxford University Press and the University of Chicago Press: R.M. Ritter (comp. and ed.), The Oxford Style Manual (2003); and The Chicago Manual of Style, 15th ed. (2003), which is also available online. Punctuation in antiquity and the Middle Ages is treated in Franz Steffens, Lateinische Paläographie, 2nd ed. (1907, reissued 1964); Peter Clemoes, Liturgical Influence on Punctuation in Late Old English and Early Middle English Manuscripts (1952); and M.B. Parkes, Pause and Effect: An Introduction to the History of Punctuation in the West (1993). Punctuation in and since the Renaissance, especially in Britain, is addressed in the relevant sections in A.C. Partridge, Orthography in Shakespeare and Elizabethan Drama: A Study of Colloquial Contractions, Elision, Prosody, and Punctuation (1964). An explanation of the grammatical context for punctuation is presented in R. Quirk et al., A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language (1985), Appendix 3.

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Add new Web site: GovInfo - Punctuation. Oct 03, 2024
Add new Web site: Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health - General grammar and punctuation. Jun 14, 2024
Add new Web site: Western Michigan University - Punctuation. May 01, 2024
Add new Web site: Pressbooks - Punctuation. Dec 20, 2023
Add new Web site: Azusa Pacific University - Basic Punctuation Rules. Oct 27, 2023
Add new Web site: Humanities LibreTexts - Punctuation. Sep 15, 2023
Add new Web site: BCCampus Publishing - Punctuation Matters. Aug 01, 2023
Links added. Apr 19, 2023
Add new Web site: University of Lynchburg - A Quick Guide to Punctuation. Mar 25, 2023
Add new Web site: BBC Culture - The mysterious origins of punctuation. Feb 11, 2023
Corrected display issue. Jul 10, 2019
Add new Web site: University of Pretoria - Punctuation. May 04, 2018
Add new Web site: Khan Academy - Punctuation: the colon, semicolon, and more. Jul 14, 2017
Add new Web site: Literary Devices - Punctuation. Jul 14, 2017
Added new Web site: Enchanted Learning - Punctuation Marks. Apr 13, 2009
Article revised and updated. Sep 17, 2007
Bibliography revised and updated. Sep 17, 2007
Added new Web site: The Good Grammar, Good Style Pages. Jun 13, 2006
Article revised. Jun 21, 2002
Article added to new online database. Jul 26, 1999
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