designed for use
especially at the end of an exclamatory rhetorical question
I continued my search of the Web: it's also a Cool Word of the
Day: http://www.cool-word.com/archive/1999/03/03.html
It also has its own page: http://www.interrobang-mks.com/
And it's shown in a table at Merriam Webster's (m-w)
site: http://www.m-w.com/mw/table/punctuat.htm
SILVA RHETORICAE: This site, provided by Dr. Gideon
Burton of Brigham Young University, is a guide to the terms of
classical and renaissance rhetoric. Sometimes it is difficult
to see the forest (the big picture) of rhetoric because of the
trees (the hundreds of Greek and Latin terms naming figures of
speech, etc.) within rhetoric.
This site is intended to help beginners, as well as experts,
make sense of rhetoric, both on the small scale (definitions and
examples of specific terms) and on the large scale (the purposes
of rhetoric, the patterns into which it has fallen historically
as it has been taught and practiced for 2000+ years).
http://humanities.byu.edu/rhetoric/
DID YOU KNOW THATthe possessive pronouns ALL have no apostrophe:
his, hers, its, yours, ours, theirs
Would a mnemonic help? _He's_ and _she's_ (contractions) have apostrophes
and so does _it's_ (contraction); _his_ and _hers_ (possessives) have no
apostrophe and neither does _its_ (possessive).
Edward S. Franchuk (St-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Quebec)
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