**Marked decline in semicolons in English books, study suggests**
“_Usage of punctuation down almost half in two decades as further research finds 67% of British students rarely use it_”
🔗 https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/may/18/marked-decline-semicolon-use-english-books-study-suggests.
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