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From: buckland@ucs.ubc.ca (Tony Buckland)
Subject: Re: Name that character!
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Date: Wed, 29 May 1991 16:50:02 GMT

In article <1991May28.193609.11082@nntp-server.caltech.edu> magyar@within.caltech.edu (Igen Magyar Istvani) writes:
>In article <10599@castle.ed.ac.uk> eanv20@castle.ed.ac.uk (John Woods) writes:
>>	?	? - any ideas? 
>How about 'interro'?  As in, 'interrobang' - !?  I seem to remember this
>being a typesetters' thing, but maybe I'm just manufacturing this is my
>mind....

 The interrobang is another symbol, a combination of the question mark
 and the exclamation point.  It was invented relatively recently as
 a way of expressing various shades of incredulity.
 
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 Just to keep the discussion lively: I can't input the things, but
 what do Spanish-speaking people call the inverted question mark and
 exclamation point at the beginning of questions and exclamations?