CRAIG CONLEY (Prof. Oddfellow) is recognized by Encarta as “America’s most creative and diligent scholar of letters, words and punctuation.” He has been called a “language fanatic” by Page Six gossip columnist Cindy Adams, a “cult hero” by Publisher’s Weekly, a “monk for the modern age” by George Parker, and “a true Renaissance man of the modern era, diving headfirst into comprehensive, open-minded study of realms obscured or merely obscure” by Clint Marsh. An eccentric scholar, Conley’s ideas are often decades ahead of their time. He invented the concept of the “virtual pet” in 1980, fifteen years before the debut of the popular “Tamagotchi” in Japan. His virtual pet, actually a rare flower, still thrives and has reached an incomprehensible size. Conley’s website is OneLetterWords.com.
Jonathan shares: This is one of the best errata I've ever encountered. I mean, how often does one see a punctuation erratum? And just imagine the overexcited typesetter reaching automatically for the exclamation point, instead of the question mark! If it's any consolation, it's correctly punctuated with the question mark on the half-title, on the front cover, and of course in the Shakespearean epigraph whence the phrase is sourced.
This question mark got its own portrait in the National-Louis's 1930 yearbook. This predates the invention of the interrobang in 1962 -- hence, there's an exclamation point in the question mark's name.