Crazy! Lol!! Super!!! In a nation of ecstasists that uses expressions like great to describe everything from a cup of coffee to a night’s sleep, it isn’t surprising that these cute punctuation ...

Priscilla Jensen’s review of “An Admirable Point: A Brief History of the Exclamation Mark!” by Florence Hazrat (Bookshelf, April 7) reminds me of something the novelist D. Keith Mano wrote in National ...

This entertaining debut by Standing on Points podcaster Hazrat “reclaim[s] the exclamation mark from its much maligned and misunderstood place at the bottom of the punctuation hierarchy.” She ...

Symantec finds 5 out of the 6 most commonly used words in spam have exclamation points. These punctuation marks activate the human alarm system — speeding up brain processes and exaggerating judgment ...