"Rend your cheeks and rub ashes into your hair," said The Spectator, for the semicolon, that "most elegant, elusive of punctuation marks", is all but dead. Use of the semicolon (in lists ...

Tired of ending your sentences with a boring period or exclamation point? Try one of these uncommon punctuation marks instead ...

“Our findings reveal that the semicolon is an ‘endangered’ punctuation mark - abandoned by many British writers who might have been expected to showcase its value, and often misunderstood by ...

“Our findings reveal that the semicolon is an ‘endangered’ punctuation mark - abandoned by many British writers who might have been expected to showcase its value, and often misunderstood by younger ...

Various respected writers, including Kurt Vonnegut, Edgar Allan Poe, Gertrude Stein and Cormac McCarthy, have publicly denounced my favourite punctuation mark as “showy”, “unnecessary ...

I’m talking about the poor, misunderstood semicolon. Yes, that most elegant of punctuation marks – sitting elusively somewhere between an en-dash and a colon – is officially under threat. Its usage in ...

The age-old semicolon is dying out as Britons admit to never or rarely using the punctuation mark, a study has found. In 19th century English literature it appeared once in every 205 words ...

Yet when you put the punctuation mark itself into the database, rather than the word “semicolon”, you get a quite different result – one that looks very much like a steady decline.