Tired of ending your sentences with a boring period or exclamation point? Try one of these uncommon punctuation marks instead ...

Olivia Howitt/Thinkstock The French writer Hervé Bazin created ... because the search for new marks of punctuation entered a fallow period of almost 30 years. Olivia Howitt/Thinkstock Like ...

French. Yes, the whole language. In French, exclamation points, question marks, colons, and semi-colons (all forms of "high" punctuation) should always have a space preceding them. For example ...

The pilcrow. The derivation of its name is as complex as its form. It originally comes from the Greek paragraphos(para, “beside” and graphein, “to write ...