No piece of punctuation, though, stirs people up more than the humble semicolon. Too demure to be a colon but more assertive than a comma, the semicolon was introduced in 1494 by Venetian printer and ...

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Like the fissionable atom, punctuation marks are wee items capable of causing a tremendous release of energy. Passionate disagreement over the use of exclamation points is so familiar that a “Seinfeld ...

Using a full stop in texts could be giving away your age, an expert has suggested. Noel Wolf, a linguistic expert, said young people aged from 13 to 28 were rewriting the rules to “shift” the meaning ...

There's one punctuation mark Gen Z wants you to stop using. Here's what it is—and why it's falling out of favor.

Using a full stop in texts could be giving away your age, an expert has suggested. Noël Wolf, a linguistic expert, said young ...

For Gen Z, though, this lack of care for punctuation goes beyond casual text messages. One millennial wrote about how ...