We’ll give Bazin credit for covering every situation: if you aren’t writing with conviction, you might need to use his doubt point instead. Not one we would recommend for your writing, incidentally – rather than stressing your certainty, it’s likely to cause confusion among most readers! 6. And while we’re not sure, we assume this means that you’re certain about something but not excited enough to use an exclamation point instead. This symbol, an exclamation point with a line through it, is used to end sentences with conviction. Conviction Pointīazin also suggested the conviction point. Several other symbols have been proposed to this end, including the percontation point above, but none of them have really taken off. Thank you for subscribing to our newsletter!īazin wasn’t alone in thinking we need a way to denote irony in writing. His idea was that the irony mark would be placed at the start of a sentence to tell you that it should be read as ironic. It looks like the Greek letter psi (ψ) with a dot below it. The French author Herve Bazin proposed six new punctuation marks, one of which was an irony mark. It is now also referred to as a “rhetorical question mark.” But, sadly for Denham, it never really caught on beyond a few punctuation nerds (like us). A reversed question mark, he intended it to be used at the end of a rhetorical question, like this: The percontation point was first suggested in the late 1500s by Henry Denham, an English printer. But this punctuation mark is rare these days, with a line of three or more asterisks more common. People have used asterisms to mark part of a text, or to indicate minor breaks (e.g., scene changes within a chapter in a novel). In the wonderful world of punctuation, though, an asterism is three asterisk marks (*) arranged in a triangle. In astronomy, an asterism is a pattern or a group of stars. While you can use a question mark and an exclamation mark separately to a similar effect, we think the interrobang looks much cooler. What are all these weird punctuation marks ‽ You can, thus, use it to show excitement or disbelief when asking a question: This punctuation mark combines a question mark (?) and an exclamation mark (!). We’re starting off with a bang – an interrobang. 7 Unusual Punctuation Marks You Never Knew Existedĭid you think punctuation was complicated enough? Well, today, September 24, is National Punctuation Day in the USA! And to celebrate, we thought we’d share some of our favorite unusual punctuation marks.
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