Two teams with apostrophes in their nicknames will square off in Mobile on Wednesday night. The nightcap of a pair of bowl ...

You’ve got everything ready for your holiday cards. You wrangled the family into fall sweaters—despite the 78-degree weather—and finally got a photo worth using. Maybe it’s from a beach trip or last ...

To better understand which social media platforms Americans use, Pew Research Center surveyed 5,022 U.S. adults from Feb. 5 to June 18, 2025. SSRS conducted this National Public Opinion Reference ...

If you were to send my family a letter, you’d have no problem writing out the envelope. My surname is Andersen, so the etiquette rules for writing a plural last name are pretty simple: Just add s! But ...

Either way, let’s not be in denial about it. Credit...Illustration by Christoph Niemann Supported by By Kevin Roose and Casey Newton Kevin Roose and Casey Newton are the hosts of The Times’s “Hard ...

At least two punctuation pages run through a content filter (wptexturize?) that automatically replaces straight quotes with curly quote entities. However, these pages specifically say to use the ...

As we’ve seen, strings are ordered collections of characters, delimited by quotation marks. But what kind of characters can be included in a string? Since Python 3.0, strings are composed of Unicode ...

A caption meme trend that has users adding extravagant captions to images of animals and people has been spreading online this year. The photographs in which pets resembling a certain object are ...

You’ve been using punctuation marks your whole life without even thinking about it. Commas, periods, and question marks are like old friends that you see everyday. But how well do you really know them ...

In French, to show that someone possesses something, you use their word for “of,” which is “de”: La plume de ma tante. Spanish works the same way: La venganza de Moctezuma. Italian, too: Buca di Beppo ...