Source: By 1865, grammarian Justin Brenan could boast of "The rejection of the eternal semicolons of our ancestors. ... The semicolon has been gradually disappearing, not only from newspapers, but from books—insomuch that I believe instances could now be produced, of entire pages without a single semicolon."
gram·mar·i·an
-noun
1. a specialist or expert in grammar.
2. a person who claims to establish or is reputed to have established standards of usage in a language.
-noun
1. a specialist or expert in grammar.
2. a person who claims to establish or is reputed to have established standards of usage in a language.
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