Grammar

There are things that we, as a society, would be remiss not to be sticklers about: inclusive language that shows respect for and validation of the people who inhabit this world, and information that’s presented accurately and clearly

•In Icelandic names, siblings have different surnames—typically patronymic, with a person’s name rooted in the given name of their father.

The em dash will shine bright, however, if you’re indicating a break in thought, aiming for an emphatic pause, or setting off an aside that’s a step above being relegated to parentheses.

Italicize titles of films, but use roman type for franchises in the general sense or when they act as a descriptor: “He has tons of Star Wars memorabilia”

Use italics for news websites and blogs (essentially anything that produces regular, dated content and is in other words analogous to a newspaper or magazine), and quotation marks for articles;

The birth of the modern emoticon, grandparent of the emoji, is widely accepted to be attributed to Scott E. Fahlman, a Carnegie Mellon University professor

Bill Walsh (who I’ve described exclusively as my personal hero since first picking up a copy of his essential text The Elephants of Style: A Trunkload of Tips on the Big Issues and Gray Areas of Contemporary American English

Seventeen years later, father of the emoji Shigetaka Kurita would create the first one—a heart—for Japanese telemarketing company NTT Docomo,

Exceptions to this: •Corporation or brand names that are pluralized, e.g., General Motors’