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Name That Punctuation Quiz

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jlightle
You call that a dagger??? This, †, is a dagger!
2010-04-13
ctleng76
The one you call a "bracket" is actually a "brace" A bracket looks like this [
Quizmaster replies:
Thanks. You're right. Although, according to wikipedia, a brace is a type of bracket.
2010-04-14
Screen Name
!@#$%^&*()_-+=[]{}\|:;"'<>,.?/
2010-04-15
Nyackjohn
as an American who (a sad reflection on our educational system) did not take foreign languages in school - (that's an "N Dash" by the way) and having worked in the past as an editor of a weekly vacation magazine - I must point out that not accepting the spelling of Non-English words when off by one letter is patently absurd, especially when the quizzes do correct spelling on many English words. When you only ever hear "Tilda", it is not unusual for a non-latin speaker to expect it has an "a" on the end, not an "e". The "interrobang" is a new one on me, and LONG needed in publishing - I love it!
2010-05-29
Quizmaster
Okay, I added "Tilda" as an allowed answer. I actually didn't know how it's pronounced.
2010-05-29
supersam
I've never seen « or this ‽ used in writing. btw, Interrobang sounds like a made up name.
2010-06-27
miggim
Interrobang doesn't appear on my screen
2010-07-05
haladisch
Guillemet is perfect, but I think that for most English speaking, you should also include "French quotation" as possible answer... Does the interrobang actually exist? How/when do you use it?
2010-08-11
elm044
I forgot ellipsis. I think that 'full stop' should be acceptable for us brits who don't call it a 'period'.
2010-09-01
elm044
I put 'at symbol' instead of 'at sign'...
2010-09-01
Quizmaster
Added 'full stop' and 'at symbol' as allowed answers.
2010-09-04
sassypants
Interrobang is my favorite punctuation mark and has been for years! Apparently FireFox doesn't recognize it as a word, :)
2011-01-17
sassypants
haladisch - the interrobang is a punctuation mark to use when both a question mark and exclamation point are needed.
2011-01-17
2kool4skoolz
an interrobang is a combination of ? and !
2011-03-19
2kool4skoolz
at should be counted as well as at sign.
2011-03-19
miduchalan
I knew « is a French quotation mark, but not that it is called a guillemet
2011-05-21
mallfacee
14 out of 20... eh :\
2011-05-30
discomoose419
Technically a backslash is called a reverse oblique.
2011-05-31
Mithol
I typed backward slash and it wasn't accepted... :( I also typed just "at" and then moved on when in wasn't accepted...
Quizmaster replies:
Backward slash will work now. Thanks!
2011-06-06
vinniechu
I got 18 \o/
2011-06-07
cjsf92
circonflex should be accepted for ^ - its the name of the accent in french
2011-06-18
canadianeh
I think "at" should work for "at sign."
2011-06-23
likaliyah517
i think "ampersand" should also be accepted as "and sign."
2011-06-26
jow
i think "speech mark" should be accepted for "quotation mark".
2011-07-01
The Gambler
i wrote "at" then figured there was some crazy name for it when it didn't register as correct, so i skipped it.
2011-07-08
sfournier1991
at symbol should be accepted
2011-07-19
katytheelf
Never knew it was called a pilcrow! In my part of the world, 'quotation marks' are called 'inverted commas' so I got a bit stuck there but eventually guessed.
2011-07-20
SeySayux
"quote" and/or "double quote" should be accepted for quotation mark (commonly called like this in programming), likewise "single quote" for apostrophe, as well as "prime" (from mathematics). The @-sign is officially called "commercial at" according to the ASCII table.
2011-07-25
emopandakun
The interrobang is used in place of a question mark and an exclamation point, to make something like, "OMG, srsly!?!?!?!" look more intelligent (and that's quite a feat). It didn't catch on, so that's why most people have no idea what it is.
2011-08-03
yocoy
You should try to get people to quit bitching so much, which would almost be easier than adding all their suggestions (like making the french word for something acceptable. Really !? If only I had an interrobang on my keyboard...)
2011-08-11
Quizmeister
@cjsf92, that's not a circonflex accent (which appears above a letter), that's a carat, which is a character on its own.
2011-09-01
2kool4skoolz
at sign should accept at
2011-10-08
theLAYTshow
How fun is interrobang!? See, if I had an interrobang key, I could have used it at the send of that sentence...:D
2011-10-27
mariofan367
The ! and the ? combined- I've seen that before. It's a combination of the two, and used when you're exclaiming a question. I wonder if I should use them in my essays...
2011-11-01
PeachyJane
Chevron should work for the guillemet.
2011-11-01
mike34ism
I really hate the ellipsis. It's so overused. Some people seem to end every damned sentence with them, especially in text and messages. It's hard to gauge the mood of a single line of text, and ending an innocuous sentence with dotdotdot makes it sound sarcastic or passively aggressive.
2011-11-02
ninarose1410
I've taken French for 8 years but I kept trying to make "French quotation mark" work...
2011-11-09
pigsnoutman
Think "at" should do, also to save time "question" and "exclamation". I dislike the interbang. I like using ?! and !? for slightly different things.
2011-12-06
LacsiraxAriscal
They're called speech marks in Britain...
2011-12-19
memoiandmyself
I'm British and we call these " speech marks ...
2011-12-29
Mom
I typed "At" for "At Sign". Shouldn't it count?
2012-01-01
Quizmaster
Okay, I am caving to the pressure and allowing "At" and "Speech Marks".
2012-01-02
Kristybabii
100%
2012-01-18
I Like Trains
I like how you accept "carrot" for "caret".
2012-01-19
mnormansell
got the interrobang from barry trotter and the unauthorized parody
2012-02-02
2Boo2
Please accept ampersat for the @ as that is its correct name.
2012-02-09
sportschicas93
we got 20/20 with 2 minutes to spare!! beat that!! sportchicas rock!!!!
2012-02-09
Lemurlover3
hypen should be one of the punctuations
2012-02-09
meilankev
I cannot believe that I am 53 years old, and I have never heard of a punctuation mark that 62% of the test-takers knew. My egotistical mind just can't wrap itself around that conclusion. ;-) But I have simply never heard of "pilcrow" (nor interrobang or dagger either, for that matter). And I have definitely never heard of "guillemet".
Quizmaster replies:
Don't beat yourself up. There are a lot of trivia wizards on this site, plus many people retake the quizzes until they get 100%. It definitely inflates the stats.
2012-02-09
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