It begins with a squinting of the eyes. Hm. A semicolon. You approach it with caution. Ok, I can do this. One dot, plus a comma. There. No, wait. That doesn’t look quite right. The questions begin: ...

Colons and semicolons are the indie rock of punctuation marks. They’re not mainstream-popular like the period. They aren’t obvious and eager-to-please like the exclamation mark. They’re not everywhere ...

Some tattoos have more meaning than others. — -- A tattoo is often something to regret later on in life. But a simple semi-colon tattoo that's blowing up on social media won't likely ever be ...

Either everyone in the Fray went to the same school, or else those pesky English professors have a lot to answer for—a surprising number of posters say their teacher told them not to use the ...

Cecelia Watson, author of “Semicolon: The Past, Present and Future of a Misunderstood Mark.” Historian and philosopher of science. Faculty member in Bard College’s Language and Thinking program.

So a recent memo I wrote was reviewed and in the flurry of red ink, this sentence was corrected by my manager (some words have been changed):<BR><BLOCKQUOTE class="ip ...