In the 16th century, printers tried a new symbol called the perconation mark. It looked like a reverse question mark (؟), and ...

I would like to be emailed about offers, event and updates from Evening Standard. Read our privacy notice. Punctuation is fraught and contentious business, and that’s before you even take semicolons ...

Punctuation may seem like a small detail in the grand scheme of writing, but its impact on communication is profound. These tiny symbols—commas, periods, question marks, and more—serve as the silent ...

National Punctuation Day commemorates all punctuation on September 24. A period, a comma, a semicolon, a question mark, and an exclamation point are examples of some of the punctuation used in writing ...

It's divisive; it cleaves; it drives some people crazy. The writer Kurt Vonnegut said of the semicolon: It's showy; it's chiefly used to show you've been to college. More than two-thirds of young ...

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A new study shows a sharp decline in the semicolon across English literature—nearly a 50% drop in just two decades. Once a favorite of literary giants like Virginia Woolf, this tiny punctuation mark ...

"Rend your cheeks and rub ashes into your hair," said The Spectator, for the semicolon, that "most elegant, elusive of punctuation marks", is all but dead. Use of the semicolon (in lists, or to join ...

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