SEMICOLON: But not everyone is ready to give up on us. Some people think punctuation marks, like me, are really important. Andreea Calude: I am one of those people who loves language.

The semicolon first appeared in 1494, so it has been around for a long time. So have arguments about it. Its detractors can be quite virulent. It is sometimes taken as a sign of affected elitism.

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semicolon use in English rose by 388 per cent between 1800 and 2006, before falling by 45 per cent over the next 11 years. In 2017, however, it started a gradual recovery, with a 27 per cent rise ...

Semicolons, thought to have been first used in 1494 by the Italian scholar and printer Aldus Pius Manutius the Elder, are forever damned by writer Kurt Vonnegut’s advice to avoid them.

The semicolon is used to separate two components of a sentence that are related but not part of it. For example, you might say that ‘I moved to Spain to further my career; it didn’t work.’ But a comma ...

semicolon use in English rose by 388% between 1800 and 2006, before falling by 45% over the next 11 years. In 2017, however, it started a gradual recovery, with a 27% rise by 2022.

The poor, misunderstood semicolon is under threat. Helen Coffey laments its decline and makes the case for re-educating ourselves on its usefulness as the chicest grammatical tool ...

Experts reveal semicolons are at risk of dying out; do YOU know how to use the once-popular punctuation mark? By JADA BAS. Published: 20:42 EDT, 18 May 2025 | Updated: 12:43 EDT, 19 May 2025 ...

Having said that, here is everything you need to know about the money glitch in Schedule 1. Note: This article focuses on Schedule 1 and its content, which is a video game set in a fictional world ...

CLYDE – The semicolon is important in the name of Wendy Whittaker-Criswell’s new nonprofit organization for the families who survive after a suicide, "What if; Hope." ...

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