Word: interrobang
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Dates: during 1967-1967
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...Martin K. Speckter, an advertising-agency president and hobbyist printer, who had long brooded over the proper punctuation for such rhetorical questions of daily life as "Who forgot to put gas in the car" or "What the hell." Speckter's device, which he prefers to call the interrobang ("bang" is printer's slang for an exclamation point), remained just an idea until Detroit Graphic Artist Richard Isbell casually included it in the Americana face he was designing. Delighted by its possibilities, the A.T.F. plans to include it in all new types that it cuts...
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