One famous Texas case actually determined the entire outcome of an election, all hinging on the meaning of a simple semicolon ...

World Semicolon Day, a day that symbolizes hope and resilience for those facing mental health challenges, is celebrated today. The semicolon, used when an author chooses to continue a sentence rather ...

What follows is reported in the mode of pure observation: the body washed and wrapped in gauze “like a small mummy”; the ...

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It’s hard to wrap my head around the fact that after May 4, if I come knocking on the William Pitt Union’s fourth floor, I’ll ...

Alexandra Paskhaver is a software engineer and writer. Both jobs require knowing where to stick semicolons, but she’s never quite; figured; it; out. For more information, check out her website at ...

If the sentences beginning with and or but are a problem for you, I invite you to simply reimagine the preceding periods as semicolons. Also, now and again, I’ll write a sentence like this ...

It is now the policy of the United States to begin all television commercials with the sentence “In America ... Link two thoughts with a semicolon, as in: He’s not even the real President ...