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 know what a semicolon was if it fell into his beer.'

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