Tech news site BBSpot is reporting on the approval by the International Grammar Standards Organization of the first new punctuation mark since the exclamation mark was added in 1914.

“Language is dynamic. It changes daily,” said IGSO President Colin Thomas, “We felt a new punctuation mark was long overdue to help with the changing language.”

Editors and English teacher worldwide are scrambling to update style guides and lesson plans to incorporate the new mark. Most felt that IGSO would reject the quartercolon.

Keyboard manufacturers, however, anticipated the move and have already begun shipping keyboards with the quartercolon instead of the back tick, which no one uses anyway.

Ms. Truss will no doubt issue an updated edition of her book to cover the quartercolon.