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I’m talking about the poor, misunderstood semicolon. Yes, that most elegant of punctuation marks – sitting elusively somewhere between an en-dash and a colon – is officially under threat.

If you can’t, it’s not the right punctuation for the situation. Here endeth the grammar lesson. Even for those who do feel confident deploying it correctly, the semicolon seems to have become ...

If you can’t, it’s not the right punctuation for the situation. Here endeth the grammar lesson.