It was born in 1494, in the work of Italian scholar and printer Aldus Pius Manutius (who also introduced italics). It’s use ...

A new study has found that use of semicolons has declined by half over the last couple of decades. Once known as the ...

At its most practical, the semicolon is a useful way of separating items on a comma-heavy list, such as the frontrunners for ...

THE Labourite’s Justice Secretary, Shabana Mahmood, was brought up for a time in Saudi Arabia. And it seems to have shaped ...

The answer to the last question is: yes, always. But caring about grammar and punctuation is more than just being a pedant.

I’m writing this with voice-to-text. It isn’t going well.

A recent study indicates a significant decline in semicolon usage over the past two decades, continuing a long-term trend. While some data suggests a recent recovery, overall usage is down.

Scholars of the academic specialty known as variationist sociolinguistics have found that across cultures, women are more ...

Experts believe that the semicolon (;) is in danger of becoming extinct from the English language because of its lack of use.

I’m mentioning all this not just because “-uh” is a curiosity in its own right but also because it says a lot about a ...

"Rend your cheeks and rub ashes into your hair," said The Spectator, for the semicolon, that "most elegant, elusive of ...

From the relevance of semicolons to confusion over their, there, and they’re, our community have been discussing their ...