Maria Kari is a freelance writer and journalist currently based in Vancouver, BC. "Who gives a [insert expletive] about an Oxford comma," asked the Vampire Weekend boys in 2008, shocking many an ...

Feelings about the semicolon run strong. Its proper use is a hallmark of literacy. Traditionally, the semicolon has three uses: it can replace a comma in a series that includes interior commas, such ...

The semicolon is a much-misused, often maligned, but elegant and useful piece of punctuation. Neither a period nor a comma, the semicolon links in some instances and divides in others. There's no need ...

April 27, 2022 Add as a preferred source on Google Add as a preferred source on Google Colons and semicolons are the indie rock of punctuation marks. They’re not mainstream-popular like the period.

Welcome to Pedants’ Corner – or is it Pedant’s Corner? Or perhaps just Pedants Corner? We grammar fanatics often get attacked for pedantry – by the way, I’m so easy-going that I think all three ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The writer is a science commentator The slow demise of the semicolon is devastating; there is no punctuation ...

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A man walks into a bar. Seriously. He orders a nightcap to finish the evening, but the barman refuses, pointing to the clock. It’s after 11pm, when serving alcohol would be illegal. This is 1900, I ...