The semicolon has been described as a "graceful pause" in writing. But this graceful punctuation mark is being forgotten.

The correct version, using a comma, would be “Judy jogged on the pavement, but it wasn’t good for her knees.” Of course, if ...

It is not a very well known punctuation mark, and I believe it should have more recognition. But the interrobang is not alone in the world of under-appreciated punctuation.

I’m talking about the poor, misunderstood semicolon. Yes, that most elegant of punctuation marks – sitting elusively somewhere between an en-dash and a colon – is officially under threat.

A missing or carelessly placed punctuation mark can significantly alter the message one intends to put across. Commas, as we understand, are used to introduce a new part of a sentence.

So now we have taken all punctuation marks under a statistical magnifying glass, and we have also looked at what happens to punctuation during translation,” says Prof. Stanislaw Drozdz (IFJ PAN ...

Even between languages, sentence punctuation seemed to follow the same mathematical rules. The researchers looked at texts in English, French, Spanish, Italian, Russian, German and Polish.

The team broke down 10 experimental novels by word counts between punctuation marks. These sets of numbers were compiled into a singularity spectrum for each book that described how orderly ...