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

“Whilst searching for best use cases to illustrate the practicality and beauty of the semicolon, we found many historical texts but fewer contemporary examples,” she adds.

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 ...

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 ...

The semicolon is used to separate two components of a sentence that are related but not part of it. For example, you might say that ‘I moved to Spain to further my career; it didn’t work.’ But a comma ...

Kurt Vonnegut (whose novels are not entirely free of semicolons) said semicolons represented “absolutely nothing” and using them just showed that you “went to college”.

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 ...

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