Semicolon use is down, and its slide is making headlines. In the U.S., these punctuation marks are appearing in published ...

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I live in close proximity to a pair of yappy, little bug-eyed creatures that give the term “dogs” a bad name. I am convinced they would bark at a brick.

Using a full stop in texts could be giving away your age, an expert has suggested. Noël Wolf, a linguistic expert, said young people – aged from 13 to 28 – were rewriting the rules to “shift” the ...

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

There are semicolons aplenty in it, and it has two examples of one of Chandler’s most characteristic uses of the semicolon: he loved to pound out a paragraph in which he dressed down someone or ...

A recent study has found a 50 per cent decline in the use of semicolons over the last two decades. The decline accelerates a long-term trend: In 1781, British literature featured a semicolon ...

Seeing a semicolon is becoming increasingly rare; it seems that writers—especially young ones—don't understand how to use them. Instances of the misunderstood piece of punctuation in English ...