I’m talking about the poor, misunderstood semicolon. Yes, that most elegant of punctuation marks – sitting elusively somewhere between an en-dash and a colon – is officially under threat.

In my opinion, I think most writers learn how to use the punctuation mark, but seldom use it because the sentences and phrases that they write don’t call for its use. And because of that reason, ...

My favorite punctuation mark would be the ever-popular interrobang. If you don’t know what an interrobang is, this is what it looks like and an example of how to use it: Wait, you don’t know ...

Our discussion today is about punctuation marks, namely, the period, comma, semi colon, colon, exclamation mark, quotation mark, hyphen, parenthesis, question mark and the apostrophe.

Everyday punctuation marks from the simple full stop to the quotation mark now mean something totally different as Gen Z adapt them to form new meanings, experts have revealed. Recently it was ...

You can quote me: ‘Doesn’t anybody know how to use punctuation any more?’ February 13, 2022 More than 3 years ago Summary ...

The age-old semicolon is dying out as Britons admit to never or rarely using the punctuation mark, a study has found. In English-written 19th century literature it appeared once in every 205 words ...