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.

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 disagreement over the use of exclamation points is so familiar that a “Seinfeld ...

Not only are semicolons evidently becoming more rare, but young people are less aware of how to use them, according to a ...

Effective written communication is crucial in the digital age. Common punctuation errors can undermine credibility in professional and academic settin ...

Inspired by the passionate response to the semicolon’s supposed decline, this quiz invites you to test – and perhaps ...

The semicolon has long been a divisive punctuation mark. Since its first reported use published by the Italian printer and humanist Aldus Manutius the Elder in the 1490s, people have both sung its ...

Punctuation plays a vital role in shaping how writing is understood. From full stops to semicolons, each mark helps guide meaning, structure, and emotion in a sentence.

Using a full stop in texts could be giving away your age, an expert has suggested. Noël Wolf, a linguistic expert, said young ...