lay-land

lay of the land

noun
the general state or condition of affairs under consideration; the facts of a situation: We asked a few questions to get the lay of the land.
Also, especially British, lie of the land.
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Lay-land is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.
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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