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 ...

Like the fissionable atom, punctuation marks are wee items capable of causing a tremendous release of energy. Passionate ...

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Anjana Ahuja’s delightful piece on the semicolon has boosted my confidence in the correctness — sorry, usefulness — of this poor, threatened punctuation mark (“Semicolons bring drama; that ...

Commas, periods, dashes, colons or even nothing, according to McLendon. Quick, punchy and versatile, the em dash can mimic semicolon pauses without the perceived snobbery.

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.

Using a full stop in texts could be giving away your age, an expert has suggested. Noël Wolf, a linguistic expert, said young people – aged from 13 to 28 – were rewriting the rules to “shift” the ...

A worker in a bucket was struck by a semi in Louisiana. The crash is under investigation and the worker was treated for minor injuries.