Weird 19th-Century Punctuation Marks You Should Try Using

Ever heard of the “colash”? Or the “commash”?

Clive Thompson
6 min readSep 30, 2022

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Writers often worry about overusing punctuation.

This is particularly true of the m-dash. Last year when I released the app Just The Punctuation — which, as the name suggests, takes a piece of your writing and strips out everything but the punctuation — some writers

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Clive Thompson

I write 2X a week on tech, science, culture — and how those collide. Writer at NYT mag/Wired; author, “Coders”. @clive@saturation.social clive@clivethompson.net