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

The old-fashioned word for punctuation is “pointing”, and the semicolon points out, most helpfully, a change in a sentence’s ...

No piece of punctuation, though, stirs people up more than the humble semicolon. Too demure to be a colon but more assertive than a comma, the semicolon was introduced in 1494 by Venetian printer and ...

A "study of semicolon use in U.S. publishing from 1920 to 2019 saw a dramatic slide." But the "semicolon will never completely go away, not as long as there are grown-ups around who still think ...

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.

According to recent studies, semicolon usage in books has halved in the last 25 years, and the majority of British students say they either rarely use it or don’t understand it at all. Blame 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 ...

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 1490s, people have both sung its ...

Semicolons have long played a prominent role in classic literature. Journalist Amelia Hill notes that Virginia Woolf relies heavily on semicolons in her meditation on time, Mrs Dalloway. The novel ...

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 ...

Language of literature 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 ...