A new study has found that use of semicolons has declined by half over the last couple of decades. Once known as the ...

The punctuation mark is sometimes taken as a sign of affected elitism. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at ...

“Semicolon,” he’d then continue ... But no matter how much its function has shifted over time, no matter how many rules are piled on top of it, and no matter how many people rail against ...

So it’s a good idea to understand how to use them even as you resolve not to. Semicolons have two functions. They connect independent clauses, and they work like commas in situations where a ...

My discipline, history and philosophy of science, had a huge role in the history of the semicolon. A lot of the history of grammar rules is a direct function of this mid- to late-1800s obsession with ...

Yet semicolons serve a unique function, so it’s tempting to think that some writers will always cling to them. When grading undergrad final papers recently, I found a near-absence of semicolons ...

The modern semicolon was invented in Venice, in 1494, by the printer and publisher Aldus Manutius, and, for much of history, it had no strictly defined function. It acted like a musical notation ...

It is not easy to write with dispassion of the odious semicolon, but let me try: Except for its function in one copy-editing circumstance, the semicolon is worthless. It is the most pusillanimous ...

Swap in a semicolon, and you had yourself a winky face, a crucial component of Noughties flirting via text. It may not have been the function originally envisaged by Italian scholar and printer ...

From the relevance of semicolons to confusion over their, there, and they’re, our community have been discussing their ...