Exclamation points used to be a rare signal of extreme intensity. Now they're everywhere, from news headlines to business emails and text messages. Thanks to our smartphone-obsessed culture, the ...

Word, word, word, word, word, punctuation mark. This is how we read. Sometimes there are more words, or fewer. Occasionally additional marks—commas, em-dashes—enter the mix. But that’s pretty much how ...

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I can still remember the pact I made with a co-worker five years ago. We began to notice an alarming increase in the number of exclamation points crammed into e-mails and text messages. False ...

Boo! Chiz!! Frantic news!!! The Department for Education has issued a ukase (or “guidance”, as they prefer to call it) on the use of exclamation marks by seven-year-olds. Nigel Molesworth and JCT ...