Here is the rule in American English: (different sources are consistent on this rule, and I suspect British English has the same rule.) When both the whole sentence and the unit enclosed in quotation marks are questions or exclamations, the

I loved this review! +++ The weekend's TV London is flooded, the royals have fled - but don't worry, David Suchet is in charge Nancy Banks-Smith The Guardian, Monday May 5 2008 When you feel lazy, there is a lot to be said for tosh, and

My colleague and I have been wondering about this for a while...If you're referring to a title with a question mark or exclamation mark, which typically requires quotation marks around it, should you use a comma along with exclamation mark and

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I've wondered whether, when referring to the product and ? French Yahoo! is written without a space by the French Yahoo! people on the French Yahoo! site http://fr.yahoo.com/. I would ... to think of the exclamation mark as just a character,

Does the US, like the UK, market have a product ingeniously named "I can't believe it's not butter!"? Yes. Check with Mpls Ray Wise he has an encyclopaedic knowledge of matters margarine and related. Me, I have enough trouble

Maria Conlon wrote Perhaps, also, we need an emoticon to ... simple exclamation mark which I hoped would fill that purpose. Ah but, Molly, these are Merkins, who have absolutely no sense whatsoever of irony. Surely you'd have recognized that

I would mention that exclamation marks are not to be used so lightly in English as in German, and never more than one. The same rule applies to educated German. And most probably it does not apply to uneducated English as well. You may want to

OK, since we're on the topic of spaces, punctuation and proof-reading...what's the deal with double-spaces after periods, question marks and exclamation marks? Don't. I don't, but many Americans do. I find this extremely annoying.