gnaborretni

English

Etymology

From interrobang reversed.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /(ɡ)næbəˈɹɛtni/, /(ɡ)næˈbɒɹətni/, /ɲɑ(ː)bɔɹɛtni(ː)/

• Audio (US):

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Noun

gnaborretni (plural gnaborretnis)

1. (typography, very rare) The symbol ⸘ (an inverted superimposed exclamation point and question mark), used in place of ¡¿ in Spanish, Galician, and Leonese.
   • 2007 November 21, Docky Wocky, “Re: Did UN artificially raise AIDS numbers to swindle more funds ?”, in alt.politics.bush‎^[1] (Usenet):

     This is why we still need the Interobang on keyboards, not the gnaborretni .

   • 2009 October 29, Dr. HotSalt, “Re: Wackypedia”, in alt.religion.kibology‎^[2] (Usenet):

     Butbutbut, what other articles link to the interrobang article, and how else would I have discovered the gnaborretni‽

   • 2010 November 19, Cyril Brulebois, “Accepted libx11 2:1.3.3-4 (source all amd64)”, in linux.debian.changes.devel‎^[3] (Usenet):

     Switch one of the interrobang sequences to gnaborretni

See also

Punctuation

• apostrophe ( ' ) ( ’ )
• curly brackets or braces (US) ( { } )
• square brackets or brackets (US) ( [ ] )
• colon ( : )
• comma ( , )
• dashes ( ‒ ) ( – ) ( — ) ( ― )
• ellipsis ( … )
• exclamation mark ( ! )
• fraction slash ( ⁄ )
• guillemets ( « » ) ( ‹ › )
• hyphen ( - ) ( ‐ )
• interpunct ( · )
• interrobang (rare) ( ‽ )
• brackets or parentheses (US, Canada) ( ( ) )
• full stop or period (US, Canada) ( . )
• question mark ( ? )
• quotation marks (formal) ( ‘ ’ ‚ ) ( “ ” „ )
• quotation marks (informal, computing) ( " ) ( ' )
• semicolon ( ; )
• slash or stroke (UK) ( / )
• space ( ] [ )

Anagrams

• interrobang