This is the Grammar Guy column, a weekly feature written by Curtis Honeycutt. I can think of a few things off the top of my head that I hope never to use: math, a fire extinguisher, Pepto Bismol and ...

What reporters put between quotation marks isn't simply a quotation. It's a choice about what they believe the person said -- or should have said. Post staff members disagree among themselves and some ...

What are news readers to make of quotation marks in an article or headline? It seems a simple question, but this punctuation occasionally causes a misimpression. The issue arose recently after The ...

I do not know who first observed the difference between “Let’s eat, Grandma,” with a comma, and “Let’s eat Grandma,” without. One version expresses a relatively polite invitation to dinner; the other ...

I love it whenever I see it: “‘Free Pickup and Delivery,’” “‘Fresh Fish’” and the like. I refer to signage on which quotation marks are used to indicate neither quotation nor irony but just upbeat ...