The Interrobang


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Ever been surprised by a question? Then the interrobang is the punctuation mark for you!

A few points from Wiki: American Martin K. Speckter invented the interrobang in 1962.

He chose the name to reference the punctuation marks that inspired it: interrogatio is Latin for “a rhetorical question” or “cross-examination”;[3] bang is printers’ slang for the exclamation point.

Microsoft provides several versions of the interrobang character as part of the Wingdings 2 character set (on the right bracket and tilde keys) available with Microsoft Office.

I now have a new punctuation to use with my favorite punctuation – the ampersand.

What will we learn next!?!

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~ by RMSmithJr.SPHR on September 25, 2010.

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