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.

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

(That said, famed grammarian and lexicographer Bryan Garner has called it “perhaps the most underused punctuation mark in American writing,” so that could be a factor.) Yet suspicion of the em ...

With the toggle enabled, Android users must tap the “?123” key to access their essential punctuation marks. With the iPhone being a key icon of the design world for over a decade now ...

Reporting other people’s speeches or writings is a technical exercise in which punctuation marks play strategic roles. Whether it is in direct speech or the indirect, punctuation marks such as ...

They also pointed out that it doesn’t happen with other punctuation marks. Some also theorized that the periods somehow interfered with the platform’s algorithm and that tagging videos with ...

WHAT is punctuation? According to Concise Oxford English Dictionary, punctuation means “marks, such as full stop, comma and brackets, used in writing to separate sentences and their elements and ...

If you hang out with anyone under 30, you might have noticed that punctuation has been getting a bad rap lately, especially when it comes to texting. While putting a period at the end of a ...

As the ¿ symbol isn’t used in English it’s an important punctuation mark in Spanish grammer. Open the Word document, navigate where you want to type the upside down spanish question mark and ...

An appropriate follow-up to last Monday’s column is: How do courts read and interpret the punctuation marks, words, phrases, and qualifiers in the Constitution and the laws? Again, the answer is not ...