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interrobang

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Noun — A punctuation symbol, ⟨‽⟩, that combines a question mark and an exclamation mark, used to show excitement, disbelief or a rhetorical question.

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Etymology

A blend of French (point d')interrogation (“question mark”) or the equivalent term in another Romance language + bang (“exclamation mark, exclamation point”), coined in a 1962 article in the journal TYPEtalks by American advertising executive Martin Kiehra Speckter (1915–1988), who invented the symbol.

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