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Mind your language

Exclamation marks

19 May 2016

1:00 PM

19 May 2016

1:00 PM

‘Like eating in the street,’ said my husband. Astonishing! He’d said something not only coherent in itself but also connected to a remark I’d been addressing to him. I had just said that at school I had been taught that the use of the exclamation mark was vulgar or rude.

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