Upside-down question and exclamation marks: Difference between revisions

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These new rules were slow to be adopted: there are 19th-century books in which the printer uses neither "¡" nor "¿".{{citation needed|date=May 2021}}

Outside of the Spanish-speaking world, [[John Wilkins]] proposed using the upside-down exclamation mark "¡" as a symbol at the end of a sentence to [[irony punctuation|denote irony]] in 1668. He was one of many, including [[Desiderius Erasmus]], who felt there was a need for such a punctuation mark, but Wilkins' proposal, as was true oflike the other attempts, failed to take hold.<ref name="Houston2013">{{cite book|first=Keith|last=Houston|title=Shady Characters: The Secret Life of Punctuation, Symbols, and Other Typographical Marks|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3R2SAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA214|date=24 September 2013|publisher=W. W. Norton|isbn=978-0-393-24154-9|page=214}}</ref><ref name="irony mark">{{cite web|last=Popova|first=Maria |title=Ironic Serif: A Brief History of Typographic Snark and the Failed Crusade for an Irony Mark|url=http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2013/09/27/shady-characters-irony/|work=Brain Pickings|date=27 September 2013 |access-date=1 Sep 2014}}</ref>

== Adoption ==