The Guardian quotes several writers who are less than pleased with the punctuation mark. “Cut out all those exclamation marks,” wrote F Scott Fitzgerald.

The exclamation mark was conceived in the 14th century by Italian scholar Alpoleio da Urbisaglia. Hazrat said he "felt very annoyed" that people were reading script with a flat tone, even if it ...

Then, in 1966, French author Hervé Bazin proposed his irony mark, which looks a bit like an exclamation point with a lowercase u through the middle , in his book, Plumons l’Oiseau, along with ...