No piece of punctuation, though, stirs people up more than the humble semicolon. Too demure to be a colon but more assertive ...

Like the fissionable atom, punctuation marks are wee items capable of causing a tremendous release of energy. Passionate disagreement over the use of exclamation points is so familiar that a “Seinfeld ...

English writer Virginia Woolf used the semicolon profusely in her novel Mrs. Dalloway —more than 1,000 semicolons dot its 194 pages to reflect the protagonist’s stream of consciousness.

There's one punctuation mark Gen Z wants you to stop using. Here's what it is—and why it's falling out of favor.

Inspired by the passionate response to the semicolon’s supposed decline, this quiz invites you to test – and perhaps ...

Common punctuation errors can undermine credibility in professional and academic settings. Mastering comma usage, apostrophes, semicolons, colons, quotation marks, and exclamation points is ...

This kind of guidance, if welcome, can be quite useful. I like to lead with a compliment. Importantly, I let the compliment end in a full stop, rather than a semi-colon or comma.