Like the fissionable atom, punctuation marks are wee items capable of causing a tremendous release of energy. Passionate ...

The age-old semicolon is dying out as Britons admit to never or rarely using the punctuation mark. In English-written 19th century literature it appeared once in every 205 words, but today it is ...

The semicolon is the comma's first cousin, but it works a little bit harder; it also makes you look smarter. Find out when to use a semicolon.

The Nation: Semicolon, Hyphen And No Serial Comma It looks like the serial, or Oxford, comma is becoming an punctuation mark of the past — but who cares? Maria Kari of The Nation, that's who.

Among punctuation marks, the semicolon is a relative latecomer, lagging behind the comma, colon and period, most linguists agree. Of course, punctuation itself did not become a standard part of ...

The semicolon has long been a divisive punctuation mark. Since its first reported use published by the Italian printer and humanist Aldus Manutius the Elder in the 1490s, people have both sung its ...

There's one punctuation mark Gen Z wants you to stop using. Here's what it is—and why it's falling out of favor.

In Massachusetts, a semicolon that should have been a comma would have prevented hotels from selling liquor after 11 P.M.; it had the effect of making people buy a lot of drinks before last call.

No piece of punctuation, though, stirs people up more than the humble semicolon. Too demure to be a colon but more assertive ...

Semicolons are often used to join parts of a sentence together to establish variety and link related ideas. Unlike a colon, which separates an independent clause from descriptive information, a ...