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

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

The age-old semicolon is dying out as Britons admit to never or rarely using the punctuation mark, a study has found.

Not as final as a full stop but stronger than a comma; a semicolon can either join or separate. Learn how to use semicolons with BBC Bitesize 3rd level English.

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 ...

Our best punctuation mark is dying out; people need to learn how to use it The poor, misunderstood semicolon is under threat. Helen Coffey laments its decline and makes the case for re-educating ...

Love or detest it, the semicolon is the most divisive punctuation mark of the modern era. Should we even care?

Like the fissionable atom, punctuation marks are wee items capable of causing a tremendous release of energy. Passionate ...

Semicolons are often used to join parts of a sentence together to establish variety and link related ideas. Unlike a colon, which separates an independent clause from descriptive information, a ...

There's one punctuation mark Gen Z wants you to stop using. Here's what it is—and why it's falling out of favor.

The age-old semicolon is dying out as Britons admit to never or rarely using the punctuation mark, a study has found.