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

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 ...

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 ...

Test yourself with our ultimate grammar quiz – from apostrophes to semicolons - Inspired by the passionate response to the ...