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

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The poor, misunderstood semicolon is under threat. Helen Coffey laments its decline and makes the case for re-educating ourselves on its usefulness as the chicest grammatical tool ...

Experts reveal semicolons are at risk of dying out; do YOU know how to use the once-popular punctuation mark? By JADA BAS. Published: 20:42 EDT, 18 May 2025 | Updated: 12:43 EDT, 19 May 2025 ...

semicolon use in English rose by 388% between 1800 and 2006, before falling by 45% over the next 11 years. In 2017, however, it started a gradual recovery, with a 27% rise by 2022.

After Semicolon, the beloved bookstore in West Town, announced in January that it plans to close in April, an outpouring of community support persuaded the owner to give her dream another go.

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 semicolon, Watson tells us, was invented in Venice in 1494, soon becoming part of a small tool kit available to writers. For centuries, she adds, punctuation was classed as "part of prosody ...

Semicolon Bookstore opens second location on Mag Mile 02:57. CHICAGO (CBS) — A Chicago bookstore dedicated to fighting the literacy gap starts a new chapter with a second store on the ...