ecphoneme

== English == === Noun === ecphoneme (plural ecphonemes) (obsolete) An exclamation mark. 1858, Goold Brown, The Grammar of English Grammars, fourth edition, Samuel S. and William Wood, page 800, The Ecphoneme, or Note of Exclamation, is used to denote а pause with some strong emotion of admiration, joy, grief, or other feeling; and, as a sign of great wonder, it is sometimes, though not very elegantly, repeated […] ==== Synonyms ==== bang (slang) exclamation mark exclamation point === See also === eroteme Punctuation