I don’t know about you, but I love a well-placed semicolon; it evokes a sense of drama, an air of anticipation of things to ...

Punctuation may be small, its rules arbitrary, but it is mighty. A single comma, em dash or semicolon can totally alter the ...

“The em dash can also usurp the semicolon’s glory — for it shows more than equality! The em dash has its own veritable ...

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I want you to bleed. I want the knife of my words to cut your soul and leave you there wondering how to fix the emotional mess.  At my worst, I am a plastic kitchen knife trying to cut into a tough ...

butterfly semicolon tattoos or any other use for this punctuation mark other than to separate two independent clauses. Much ...

We’ll show you how to do this using your phone’s built-in app ... This gives you control over exactly when the extension is entered. You can also add a semicolon directly—without opening the ...