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Word Processing: The exclamation mark has a rich history! And it deserves more respect!
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In the latest installment of Word Processing, our ongoing look at language, we’re focusing on that increasingly used, and many would say abused, bit of punctuation: the exclamation mark! Literary scholar Florence Hazrat has been unearthing its 700-year-old journey from monastery to text message for her new book An Admirable Point: A Brief History of the Exclamation Mark! She urges us not to be afraid of emotion, and to exclaim away!