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Punto Esclamativo! Posted by Serena on Jul 13, 2012
Have you ever wondered why the exclamation mark ! is written like that? No? … well I’m going to tell you anyway! A couple of days ago, whilst browsing through the Italian magazine ‘Focus’, I came across the following curious piece of information. Sometime during the Fifteenth Century, when manuscripts were copied by hand, the…