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

T hey are inaudible and unpronounceable. They do not exist in spoken English—they are at best a pause rather than a presence: ...

SEMICOLON: But not everyone is ready to give up on us. Some people think punctuation marks, like me, are really important. Andreea Calude: I am one of those people who loves language.

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The 2025 French Open is here. The event, which is held every year at Roland-Garros, has begun. Carlos Alcaraz and Iga Swiatek will look to defend their titles after winning the men's and women's ...

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

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 is used to separate two components of a sentence that are related but not part of it. For example, you might say that ‘I moved to Spain to further my career; it didn’t work.’ But a comma ...

The semicolon first appeared in 1494 , so it has been around for a long time. So have arguments about it. Its dectractors can be quite virulent. It is sometimes taken as a sign of affected elitism .

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.

Semicolon bookstore will go on after community steps up to save the beloved institution ... Chicago Bulls draft French teen Noa Essengue at No. 12, opting for upside and versatility.