The semicolon defended by its advocates
A study found that semicolons are in steep decline; I remain loyal.
Its dectractors can be quite virulent. It is sometimes taken as a sign of affected elitism. Adrian Mole, the pretentious schoolboy protagonist of Sue Townsend's popular novels, says snobbishly of Barry Kent, the skinhead bully at his school: "He wouldn't …
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