The Apostrophe Protection Society is going along very strongly; perhaps we need a Semicolon Supporting Society?

Our best punctuation mark is dying out; people need to learn how to use it - IN FOCUS: The poor, misunderstood semicolon is ...

Reading good prose should be like listening to a well-constructed piece of music: it should have rhythm; it should have ...

Experts believe that the semicolon (;) is in danger of becoming extinct from the English language because of its lack of use.

A recent study suggests a significant decrease in semicolon usage in English books, with punctuation down nearly 50% in two ...

Semicolons must combine similar elements and are either used ... it is acceptable to combine them with a colon. Example: Water refill stations should be installed at all universities: refill stations ...

From the relevance of semicolons to confusion over their, there, and they’re, our community have been discussing their ...

Semicolons are often used to join parts of a sentence together to establish variety and link related ideas. Unlike a colon, which separates an independent clause from descriptive information, a ...

The semicolon originated in Venice in 1494, invented by the printer and publisher Aldus Manutius. It was designed as a hybrid punctuation mark to combine elements of a comma and a colon in order ...