No piece of punctuation, though, stirs people up more than the humble semicolon. Too demure to be a colon but more assertive than a comma, the semicolon was introduced in 1494 by Venetian printer and ...

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 ...

Introduction In 2014, nearly 100,000 people will be diagnosed with colon cancer in the United States, 1 and most will undergo colectomy. While laparoscopy has become the preferred approach to ...

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.