abusage

a·bus·age

[uh-byoo-sij]
noun
improper use of words; unidiomatic or ungrammatical language.

Origin:
1540–50; abuse + -age

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Abusage is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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