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

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

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.

It will sweat the structure, the syntax, the semicolons. When I prattle on about dangling participles and the like, some students hear a sad evangelist for a silly religion.

Semicolons are kind of optional. What’s a writer to do? Seeing counsel, I asked some of my former colleagues at the Democrat and Chronicle to email me their thoughts on the semicolon.

Semicolons are kind of optional. What’s a writer to do? Seeing counsel, I asked some of my former colleagues at the Democrat and Chronicle to email me their thoughts on the semicolon.

The Wilson County Sheriff’s Office, Mt. Juliet Police Department and other law enforcement agencies and emergency services across Wilson County are marking their vehicles with a semicolon pla… ...

A Civil War Over Semicolons The biographer Robert Caro and his editor, Robert Gottlieb, have been arguing with each other for 50 years.

Semicolons, thought to have been first used in 1494 by the Italian scholar and printer Aldus Pius Manutius the Elder, are forever damned by writer Kurt Vonnegut’s advice to avoid them.

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

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 decades.