What killed the semicolon? Paul Collins suggests that the telegraph didn't help, as it priced the semi-colon at $5 a use. But the Semi-Colon will always have a place in my writing: Collins notes, "The semicolon allows woozy clauses to lean on each other like drunks for support."

In any event, I'm just grateful this blog's semicolon label is getting some use; I'd hate to think I created it for naught.

As long-time readers have no doubt noticed, I'm rather fond of the semicolon. So I ask you, where's my New York Times profile?

In case you were wondering, yes, I did deliberately avoid using a semicolon in this post; were I to misuse a semicolon while discussing said mark of punctuation, it would be too much for me to bear.