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A recent study has found a 50 per cent decline in the use of semicolons over the last two decades. The decline accelerates a longterm trend: In 1781, British literature featured a semicolon ...

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

SEMICOLON: Hi. I'm a semicolon. But if you don't know me, well, that's okay. Lots of people don't. REID: I can't think of it. SEMICOLON: That's fine, that's totally fine. I'm a punctuation mark ...

I turned up at university with very little idea of what semicolons were for – a fact that in no way stopped me from shoehorning them in wherever I thought they might add an extra sprinkle of ...

“Our findings reveal that the semicolon is an ‘endangered’ punctuation mark - abandoned by many British writers who might have been expected to showcase its value, and often misunderstood by ...

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.

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Coffey highlighted that usage of the semicolon – described as “a chic little grammatical tool” – has halved in English books over the past 25 years. Her piece revealed that most students ...

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"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 ...