Gary Lineker admits that, when he recently retweeted pro-Palestinian propaganda against Israel, he did not notice that it ...

While all the recent chatter around colon cancer is alarming, new studies are also showing promising data around the positive ...

Experts believe that the semicolon (;) is in danger of becoming extinct from the English language because of its lack of use.

The Apostrophe Protection Society is going along very strongly; perhaps we need a Semicolon Supporting Society?

open image in gallery Who ... emoticons helped to convey meaning. Punctuation marks could be combined to create rudimentary expressions, such as a colon and a closing parenthesis to indicate ...

In that sentence I have used the four principal marks of punctuation: the colon, the semi-colon, the comma and the full stop. Yet, it is reported, the semi-colon is dying out. The reason why is simple ...

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. Its usage in ...

Punctuation marks could be combined to create rudimentary expressions, such as a colon and a closing parenthesis to indicate a smiley face (“no worries!!!”) or a colon and an “o” to ...

"Rend your cheeks and rub ashes into your hair," said The Spectator, for the semicolon, that "most elegant, elusive of ...