The Apostrophe Protection Society is going along very strongly; perhaps we need a Semicolon Supporting Society?

A study found that semicolons are in steep decline; I remain loyal. Its dectractors can be quite virulent. It is sometimes taken as a sign of affected elitism.Adrian Mole, the pretentious ...

The punctuation mark is sometimes taken as a sign of affected elitism. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

The age-old semicolon is dying out as Britons admit to never or rarely using the punctuation mark, a study has found. In 19th century English literature it appeared once in every 205 words ...

Ever since Kurt Vonnegut slandered semicolons (“They are transvestite hermaphrodites,” he said, “representing absolutely nothing”), aspiring writers have looked upon them with a mixture of ...

Adrian Mole, the pretentious schoolboy protagonist of Sue Townsend’s popular novels, says snobbishly of Barry Kent, the skinhead bully at his school: “He wouldn’t know what a semicolon was ...