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Following Helen Coffey’s lament over the declining use of the semicolon, Independent readers responded by voicing their own grammar and spelling frustrations.
Coffey highlighted that usage of the semicolon – described as “a chic little grammatical tool” – has halved in English books over the past 25 years.