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Neatorama's The Origin of Everyday Punctuation Marks. Short but useful trivia. Here's the entry on !

Origin: Like the question mark, the exclamation point was invented by stacking letters. The mark comes from the Latin word io, meaning "exclamation of joy." Written vertically, with the i above the o, it forms the exclamation point we use today.

Includes that "Artist Previously Known As" thing, which is now deprecated, since Prince went back to being Prince. (Someone needs to name that punctuation mark—I say we call it the Princemark, just to be recursive.)

[via Fimoculous.com]

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