Interrobang

[7] Historically, writers have used multiple consecutive punctuation marks to end a sentence expressing both surprise and question.

Neves, Called Dead in Fall, Denies ItAmerican Martin K. Speckter (June 14, 1915 – February 14, 1988)[8] conceptualized the interrobang in 1962.

[11] In 1965, Richard Isbell created the Americana typeface for American Type Founders and included the interrobang as one of the characters.

Lucida Grande, the default font for many UI elements of legacy versions of Apple's OS X operating system, includes the interrobang, and Microsoft provides several versions of the interrobang in the Wingdings 2 character set (on the right bracket and tilde keys on US keyboard layouts), included with Microsoft Office.

[17] In current practice, interrobang-like emphatic ambiguity in Hispanic languages is usually achieved by including both sets of punctuation marks one inside the other (¿¡De verdad!?

The State Library of New South Wales, in Australia, uses an interrobang as its logo,[20] as does the educational publishing company Pearson, which thus intends to convey "the excitement and fun of learning".

[21] Chief Judge Frank H. Easterbrook used an interrobang in the 2012 United States Seventh Circuit opinion Robert F. Booth Trust v.

[22][23] Australian Federal Court Justice Michael Wigney used an interrobang in the first paragraph of his 2018 judgment in Faruqi v Latham [2018] FCA 1328 (defamation proceedings between former Federal Opposition Leader Mark Latham and political campaigner and writer Osman Faruqi).

[24] In chess, an interrobang is used to represent a dubious move, one that is questionable but possibly has merits.