The Real Academia Española applied the same rule to exclamation points, and books published by the academy thereafter began implementing the inverted marks, though often in a haphazard manner.

According to Keith Houston, author of Shady Characters, it was British philosopher John Wilkins who first suggested an irony mark, which he thought should be an inverted exclamation point.

Other iterations of the “irony mark” popped up in the late 17th century — an inverted exclamation point (¡) — and, more recently, in 2010 — through a swirly character called the ...

These upside-down exclamation points keep you safe. But they are also having fun . Emily Chertoff is a former writer and producer for The Atlantic 's National channel.

Way sexier and has the added bonus of looking like an upside-down exclamation point. 02 of 56. BERMUDA SHORTS . ... THE INVERTED V HEMLINE . Kevin Winter/Getty. The “cavewoman, ...

Crescent Real Estate is hoping its two new residential towers will be the exclamation point on the Uptown neighborhood that’s grown around its landmark complex. The first— the 31-story 2811 ...

Their patent was short and to the point: Leonard Storch and his co-inventors explained that they had replaced the dots at the bottom of the question mark and the exclamation mark with commas, so ...

The inverted exclamation point celebrates Ocasio-Cortez’s heritage (she is Puerto Rican) and turns her name into exclamatory rallying cry. The tired patriotic star motif is incorporated here in ...

¡: An upside-down exclamation point. Put in front of an exclamatory sentence. ¿: An upside-down question mark. Put in front of a question. ˜: A tilde. Put over the letter “n” from time to ...

Exclamation Point by Richard Artschwager was one of the art pieces featured at the FOG Art + Design Fair in the Fort Mason Festival Pavilion in San Francisco, Calif., on Jan.15, 2020.

Because sometimes, periods, commas, colons, semi-colons, dashes, hyphens, apostrophes, question marks, exclamation points, ...