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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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