The loud-mouthed exclamation mark had much quieter origins. In the late 14th Century it was called ‘the point of admiration’; by the 17th it had even become the ‘wonderer’.

The Guardian quotes several writers who are less than pleased with the punctuation mark. “Cut out all those exclamation marks,” wrote F Scott Fitzgerald.

The companion exclamation mark, simply put, means a companion wants to have a conversation with you (no, the romantic kind isn't a thing in Avowed).Unfortunately, your character seems to be shy in ...

Then, in 1966, French author Hervé Bazin proposed his irony mark, which looks a bit like an exclamation point with a lowercase u through the middle , in his book, Plumons l’Oiseau, along with ...

The exclamation mark was conceived in the 14th century by Italian scholar Alpoleio da Urbisaglia. Hazrat said he "felt very annoyed" that people were reading script with a flat tone, even if it ...