Interrobang
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Sep 4, 2026
HeinzHOST
Sure.
HeinzHOST
Interrobang.
TitoHOST
Are you doing a haiku? No, no, no, no.
TitoHOST
Really wanted to use an interrobang because that's the best punctuation mark.
Ken KleminskiNARRATOR
Now here is Florence Hazratt with On the Mark, a thoughtful and lively history of punctuation.
Ken KleminskiNARRATOR
Subtitled From Periods to Interrobangs, How Punctuation Remade the World.
Ken KleminskiNARRATOR
The book explores the evolution and effects of the small markings that writers have used for more than four centuries.
Ken KleminskiNARRATOR
One surprise here is that no new bit of punctuation has gained at purchase in English language writing since about 1600.
Ken KliminskiNARRATOR
Now here is Florence Hazrat with On the Mark, a thoughtful and lively history of punctuation.
Ken KliminskiNARRATOR
Subtitled From Periods to Interrobangs, How Punctuation Remade the World, the book explores the evolution and effects of the small markings that writers have used for more than four centuries.
Ken KliminskiNARRATOR
One surprise here is that no new bit of punctuation has gained a purchase in English language writing since about 1600.
Ken KliminskiNARRATOR
The interrobang of the subtitle is a mashup of the question mark and the exclamation point that a New York ad man tried to popularize in the 1960s.