If you use the wrong one, you can always claim it was a typo. | Dominique James/iStock via Getty Images Plus Despite what its name suggests, a semicolon isn’t exactly just half a colon—it has its own ...

It begins with a squinting of the eyes. Hm. A semicolon. You approach it with caution. Ok, I can do this. One dot, plus a comma. There. No, wait. That doesn’t look quite right. The questions begin: ...

Colons and semicolons are the indie rock of punctuation marks. They’re not mainstream-popular like the period. They aren’t obvious and eager-to-please like the exclamation mark. They’re not everywhere ...

THE semi-colon tattoo is growing in popularity and while it may be small, it has a very big and powerful message. It has spread around the world as a symbol of strength in the face of mental health ...

The most common way to use a semicolon is to help join closely connected ideas in a sentence. These sections must be independent and complete sentences, but closely linked in some way. A full stop ...

In the rapidly growing business of body art, the semicolon tattoo is attracting national attention. Project Semicolon began in 2013 as one woman's way to honor the father she lost to suicide. Amy ...

USA TODAY's Nashville music critic gets diagnosed with cancer, genetic disorder Lynch syndrome affects 800,000 in the USA, with as many as 98% undiagnosed The hardest part? The prospect of breaking a ...

Getting a tattoo is no small thing, but Clay gets a semicolon (or at least tries) in the first episode of 13 Reasons Why. The idea is to show the impact of suicide, and it's linked to mental health ...