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And the Answer Is….
Yesterday, I said, “One of these things just doesn’t belong here… come on, can you tell me which one…. point, bang, cow, query…And bonus points to anyone who knows why the other three are related.”
Most of you easily figured out that “cow” was the oddball. But I think many of you were stumped by the reason why.
Point, bang, and query are all terms used in proofreading / editing to refer to punctuation marks.
A “point” is a period, also called a full stop, a dot, or and end stop.
A “bang” is an exclamation mark.
A “query” is a question mark.
And now you know why they all go together.