Colons

Colons and quote marks help make the distinction: RT Jones campaign now denouncing smith on education: @jonescampaign smith's policies would destroy our schools RT big European paper praises euro plan: @dailyeuropean "at last, a euro plan that works" bit.ly/xxxxx.

HUFFPOST HILL - Pipeline To Nowhere Arthur Delaney 2011

Colons are great, because you don't know what's going to follow them!

Happy, National Punctuation Day?.!!,()& Alexandra Petri 2010

Colons and semicolons go outside, and the position of question marks and exclamation marks depends on the sense.

February « 2009 « Sentence first 2009

Colons and semicolons go outside, and the position of question marks and exclamation marks depends on the sense.

How to use quotation marks 2009

For WB, founder and chair of both WUC, BWUTC (We Use Colons, But We Use Them Correctly) and its sometimes inflammatory subsidiary ALATUT (As Long As They Use Them), and editor extraordinaire who is both passionate and indecisive about punctuation

The Fuddy-Duddy Writer Reflects on her Fan(s) 2010

Colons and semi-colons, and when best to employ them, have always been something of an 'Achilles Heel' for me: I presume semi-colons are used in lists following colons, and colons are used for 'dramatic pauses', whereas 'semi-colons' can also be used almost like 'pauses for breath', or stronger forms of commas.

The girl who kicked the publisher's keister for misplacing an apostrophe Peter Rozovsky 2010

Colons are long and there is ample space for hiding a myriad of nasty objects.

A Colonoscopy at Every Airport? 2009

Colons are long and there is ample space for hiding a myriad of nasty objects.

Printing: A Colonoscopy at Every Airport? 2009

Colons are long and there is ample space for hiding a myriad of nasty objects.

A Colonoscopy at Every Airport? 2009

Colons: more definite than semicolons, less final than a period, able to set off long lists with a single mark.

The first sentence I wrote today (with a segue into a rant on punctuation) Edward Willett 2006