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The Centuries-Long Quest To Choose A Punctuation Mark For Irony And Sarcasm

The history of punctuation is full of efforts to choose a mark that would make it clear to readers when the writer is being ironic or sarcastic.

Some People Are Sweet On Kool-Aid Pickles, But Others Have Soured On The Idea

Today in 2007, the New York Times published a feature story on Kool Aid pickles, a sweet and sour treat that found some diehard fans in the southern US.

The Peculiar Reason Chicken, Alaska Got Its Name

Alaska is an unusual state in many ways, and here's the story of an unusual town that was supposed to be named for one bird but got named after a different one instead.

The Asterisk Has Been Helping Us Qualify Our Sentences For Over Two Millennia

The new book “Hyphens and Hashtags” looks at where all our punctuation marks have come from. Some of them, like the highly versatile asterisk, have been around for thousands of years.