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 ...

Today, according to the Financial Times, ‘Americans see the semicolon as punctuation’s axis of evil.’ As Ben McIntyre wrote in The Times, ‘Americans have long regarded the semicolon with suspicion… ...

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

The semicolon has long been a divisive punctuation mark. Since its first reported use published by the Italian printer and humanist Aldus Manutius the Elder in the 1490s, people have both sung its ...

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