Gen Z is canceling capital letters—should you join them or fight in grammar's last stand? As a mother of four, I’ve learned to just nod and pretend I understand Gen Z slang—no cap, frfr. So when they ...

In September 2021, a professor at the Mount Royal University in Calgary, Alberta, Canada announced that she would be rendering all text on the website of the office of indigenization and ...

Young people have ditched capitalisation in favour of a writing style that reflects their values and attitudes to tradition. Will this change our language for ever? When Maelle Kouman, 24, turned off ...

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Journalism professors at Leeds Trinity University in the UK have been instructed not to use certain words — in case they frighten sensitive students. According to UK media reports, the use of capital ...

More than one-third of the world’s population uses a writing system that includes both uppercase and lowercase letter forms. In these writing systems, capitalization is the use of an uppercase form ...

WhatsApp hit the headlines this week after users noticed a subtle change within the app. 'Online' and 'Typing' - words displayed under the other user's name in your chats - had changed from having ...