Not only are semicolons evidently becoming more rare, but young people are less aware of how to use them, according to a ...

Effective written communication is crucial in the digital age. Common punctuation errors can undermine credibility in ...

Inspired by the passionate response to the semicolon’s supposed decline, this quiz invites you to test – and perhaps ...

T hey are inaudible and unpronounceable. They do not exist in spoken English—they are at best a pause rather than a presence: ...

Aldus Manutius, Pietro Bembo 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 ...

I wrote a column about the decline in the use of humble apostrophe. The Local Government Association, who possibly ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The writer is a science commentator The slow demise of the semicolon is devastating; there is no ...

It was born in 1494, in the work of Italian scholar and printer Aldus Pius Manutius (who also introduced italics). It’s use rose by 388% between 1800 and 2006, before falling by 45% over the next 11 ...

Lots of people don't. REID: I can't think of it. SEMICOLON: That's fine, that's totally fine. I'm a punctuation mark, and I actually go back a long way. I was born in Venice, in 1494. A time when ...