From Help! to Build A Rocket Boys!, exclamation marks rock!

Will Elbow's new album title reclaim grammar's least-loved piece of punctuation from Facebook commenters and literary snobs?Pity the poor exclamation mark. Used well it's a vital component of a writer's tonal range. When misused – look at Facebook – it can make one long for the days when bad grammar was punished with a metre rule on the bum rather than an "unlike".It usually takes the work of Tom Wolfe to use them without sounding like a chain email circulated by your niece. F Scott Fitzgera...

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