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Thanks to the American Type Founders Co., Inc., an easy solution is at hand: the interabang, , a punctuation mark included in a new A.T.F. type face called Americana. The symbol was invented by 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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Language: New Punctuation Mark | 7/21/1967 | See Source »

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