{"id":50,"date":"2009-05-09T12:17:20","date_gmt":"2009-05-09T12:17:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/?p=50"},"modified":"2009-06-01T16:22:07","modified_gmt":"2009-06-01T16:22:07","slug":"interrobang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/09\/interrobang\/","title":{"rendered":"?!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/grammar.about.com\/od\/il\/g\/interrobaterm.htm\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/interrobang.jpg\" alt=\"interrobang\" title=\"interrobang\" width=\"109\" height=\"144\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-138\" \/><\/a>What&#8217;s an <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Interrobang\">interrobang<\/a>? It&#8217;s a nonstandard English punctuation mark that combines the exclamation mark (!) and the question mark (?).<\/p>\n<p>When you&#8217;re asking a question that&#8217;s also an exclamation (or vice versa), you would normally place both exclamation and question marks at the end &#8211; &#8220;What is that?!&#8221; for example. With the interrobang however, you get both in one.<\/p>\n<p>This clever idea was thought up in 1962 by American ad agency director Martin K. Speckter, although it&#8217;s never become part of standard English punctuation. I certainly have never seen it written anywhere. The name comes from the Latin for &#8220;query&#8221; (<em>interrogatio<\/em>) and printer jargon for the exclamation mark (<em>bang<\/em>).<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s easy enough to handwrite, although in my writing it comes out looking more like a poorly scribed question mark. If you\u2019re typing, MS Word has the symbol in Wingdings, and some word processors support it with the shortcut Alt+8253. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What&#8217;s an interrobang? It&#8217;s a nonstandard English punctuation mark that combines the exclamation mark (!) and the question mark (?). When you&#8217;re asking a question that&#8217;s also an exclamation (or vice versa), you would normally place both exclamation and question marks at the end &#8211; &#8220;What is that?!&#8221; for example. With the interrobang however, you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[32,33,28],"class_list":["post-50","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hints-and-tips","tag-interrobang","tag-non-standard-english","tag-punctuation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":188,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions\/188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}