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		<title>The Interrobang</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Have you ever heard of such a thing? According to Wikipedia *, the interrobang was invented in 1962 by Martin K. Speckter. The purpose of the interrobang is to denote such sentences which require both a question mark and an exclamation point.
The interrobang has never caught on as a standard punctuation mark, although it&#8217;s part [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ofbooksandwriting.wordpress.com&blog=5523954&post=33&subd=ofbooksandwriting&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><br /><p>Have you ever heard of such a thing? According to Wikipedia *, the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interrobang">interrobang </a>was invented in 1962 by Martin K. Speckter. The purpose of the interrobang is to denote such sentences which require both a question mark and an exclamation point.</p>
<p>The interrobang has never caught on as a standard punctuation mark, although it&#8217;s part of Microsoft&#8217;s Wingding 2 collection.</p>
<p>Grammatical rules state that the exclamation point is enough when writing an exclamatory question.</p>
<p>I had no idea that a word existed for this combination of exclamation point and question mark.</p>
<p>* I know. Wikipedia is a poor source of accurate information because anyone can log in and edit the information. Have you noticed, though, that almost everyone uses it? I&#8217;ve spoken with people who don&#8217;t know what search engines are, but they know how to look things up in Wikipedia.</p>
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