The 90-year-old loblolly pine, whose trunk resembled an inverted question mark, was cut down in sections to make way for a $16.6-million University Learning Center.

¡: An upside-down exclamation point. Put in front of an exclamatory sentence. ¿: An upside-down question mark. Put in front of a question. ˜: A tilde. Put over the letter “n” from time to ...

An upside-down question mark is a bit trickier—hold down option plus shift, then punch the question-mark key, ¿comprende? Microsoft Word is somewhat harder.

¡: An upside-down exclamation point. Put in front of an exclamatory sentence. ¿: An upside-down question mark. Put in front of a question. ˜: A tilde. Put over the letter “n” from time to ...