Of all the punctuation marks, the semicolon is far from the most popular. It's fallen in usage since it's heyday in the 1800s. Why was it so big then, and what changed? It might be that folks ...

So you might think, Maybe Chandler just didn’t like the semicolon, or maybe he didn’t know how to use one. But Chandler’s essays, sparkling yet far less well-known than the Marlowe novels ...

This blend of a comma and a period sits on the right side of the “L” on our computer keyboards, almost mocking us and daring us to use it. But the semicolon often gets overlooked because using ...

The most common way to use a semicolon is to help join closely connected ideas in a sentence. These sections must be independent and complete sentences, but closely linked in some way ...

It may not have been the function originally envisaged by Italian scholar and printer Aldus Pius Manutius the Elder – whose work contains the first recorded use of a semicolon in 1494 – but at ...

The semicolon is disappearing. A recent study has found a 50% decline in the use of semicolons over the last two decades.

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