The old-fashioned word for punctuation is “pointing”, and the semicolon points out, most helpfully, a change in a sentence’s direction. A little side-turn into wonder, perhaps.

Anjana Ahuja’s delightful piece on the semicolon has boosted my confidence in the correctness — sorry, usefulness — of this poor, threatened punctuation mark (“Semicolons bring drama; that ...

Inspired by the passionate response to the semicolon’s supposed decline, this quiz invites you to test – and perhaps rediscover – your grasp of English grammar, from the basics to the ...

Inspired by the passionate response to the semicolon’s supposed decline, this quiz invites you to test – and perhaps rediscover – your grasp of English grammar, from the basics to the ...

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Could the Semicolon Die Out? Recent Analysis Finds a Decline in Its Usage in British Literature and Confusion Among U.K. Students Not only are semicolons evidently becoming more rare, but young ...

Researchers say semicolons are being used less and less and may be on their way out.

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

Semicolons are becoming increasingly rare; their disappearance should be resisted A recent study has found a 50 per cent decline in the use of semicolons over the last two decades.

Semicolons, thought to have been first used in 1494 by the Italian scholar and printer Aldus Pius Manutius the Elder, are forever damned by writer Kurt Vonnegut’s advice to avoid them.

Experts believe that the semicolon (;) is in danger of becoming extinct from the English language because of its lack of use. Surveys showed that more than half of Britons never use it in their ...