Q. I am still puzzled by the rules governing the punctuation of nouns in apposition. For example, should there or should there not be commas surrounding the name in this phrase: “my son Bill”? — ...

“Of making many books there is no end,” we learn in Ecclesiastes, and in the Chicago Manual of Style, we learn that if you begin that quotation with a drop cap, you’ll probably omit the opening ...

Odd little chaps, these commas, that seem to trouble so many writers. For instance you published a story about a lady recorded as "Diana, Princess of Wales,". Notice the two commas: they turn ...

Last week the Supreme Court decided to hear a Second Amendment case involving the D.C. handgun ban, and it sent some nontraditional fierce opponents scurrying for the battle lines. On one side, ...