Sex and the semicolon at the Boston Globe. Nevertheless, the semicolon has been suffering. Paul Collins, in a recent Slate article, cited a study showing “a stunning drop in semicolon usage between the 18th and 19th centuries, from 68.1 semicolons per thousand words to just 17.7.” You’d think a victory like that would satisfy the [...]
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