An NYU team uses machine learning to analyze neural activity data and uncover how speech is produced. In a recent paper ...

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

LONDON — Like the fissionable atom, punctuation marks are wee items capable of causing a tremendous release of energy. Passionate disagreement over the use of exclamation points is so familiar ...

What punctuation mark does Gen Z dislike? It’s the semicolon. According to the study, there’s been a steep drop in semicolon use—from once every 205 words in 2000 to once every 390 words in ...

"You can't even put those guys in the same sentence because we didn't know Tom Brady's last year when it was last year, right." Edelman said. "He didn't want the distraction of that.

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.

this once-stylish symbol of sentence sophistication is fast vanishing from our written language. According to recent studies, semicolon usage in books has halved in the last 25 years, and the majority ...

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

The inverted comma is falling out of fashion. Ms Rooney discarded it for her last three bestselling books. This year’s Booker Prize winner, “Orbital”, didn’t use them either. Our number ...

The semicolon can be very effective in a paragraph-long sentence like this, where it can highlight and amplify parallel structure.

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 ...