F. Scott Fitzgerald once said, "An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke." You don't want to be the person laughing at his own joke. That's why you should print out this infographic ...

The Royal typewriter that decorates my office was a throwback when I bought it, for $5, at a yard sale in the 1970s. I keep it nearby partly out of sentimentality, having spent countless hours ...

Turns out, no one really knows the history of the punctuation mark. The current running theory is that it comes from Latin. In Latin, the exclamation of joy was io, where the i was written above ...

The loud-mouthed exclamation mark had much quieter origins. In the late 14th Century it was called ‘the point of admiration’; by the 17th it had even become the ‘wonderer’.

Are exclamation marks always out of bounds in professional communications, though? As a recovering exclamation-mark addict, I decided to dig deeper into the roles–good, ...

Back in 2016, Britain's Department for Education instructed moderators of Key Stage 1 national curriculum tests to penalise pupils who used exclamation marks 'inappropriately'.

F. Scott Fitzgerald once declared that using an exclamation point was like laughing at your own joke, but linguist Geoff Nunberg begs to differ. He has begun embracing the mark in his own writing.

Exclamation points should be used carefully. Getty Images — -- If you have ever agonized over whether you should use that exclamation mark in an email, you can breathe a sigh of relief.