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It begins with a squinting of the eyes. Hm. A semicolon. You approach it with caution. Ok, I can do this. One dot, plus a comma. There. No, wait. That doesn’t look quite right. The questions begin: ...

It is a piece of punctuation that has divided writers and authors for centuries. Novelists including Virginia Woolf and Jane Austen have not shied away from using them, but that has not stopped ...

Cecelia Watson, author of “Semicolon: The Past, Present and Future of a Misunderstood Mark.” Historian and philosopher of science. Faculty member in Bard College’s Language and Thinking program.

When you’re learning to type, the first lesson is the home-row position — the keys where your fingers rest: a s d f j k l ;. Learning this, you might naturally assume that the semicolon is pretty ...

A new study shows a sharp decline in the semicolon across English literature—nearly a 50% drop in just two decades. Once a favorite of literary giants like Virginia Woolf, this tiny punctuation mark ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The writer is a science commentator The slow demise of the semicolon is devastating; there is no punctuation ...

Colons and semicolons are punctuation marks. They help express relationships between parts of a sentence. A colon is used before describing or further explaining something previously mentioned in a ...

According to Cecelia Watson, semicolons aren't just punctuation marks. They're also "a place where our anxieties and our aspirations about language, class, and education are concentrated." That may ...

Most English-speakers who write for a living have some appreciation for the semicolon, but a few dislike it or avoid it altogether. “Do not use semicolons,” Kurt Vonnegut wrote. “They are transvestite ...