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Old 09-09-2008, 05:49 AM   #173
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Originally Posted by kovidgoyal View Post
But , is used to denote many items.
; is also used to seperate many items.

Here

http://chuma.cas.usf.edu/~olson/pms/semicolon.html

it is described how ; is used as a supercomma and the example they give is:
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Suncom Corporation has subsidiaries in four cities: New York, New York; Wilmington, Ohio; Houston, Texas; and San Francisco, California.
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