An essay by Cecelia Watson, in the Paris Review: “The Birth of the Semicolon.” The semicolon was born in Venice in 1494. It was meant to signify a pause of a length somewhere between that of the comma and that
An essay by Cecelia Watson, in the Paris Review: “The Birth of the Semicolon.” The semicolon was born in Venice in 1494. It was meant to signify a pause of a length somewhere between that of the comma and that