Let pollocks be pollocks – a little chat about dialogue tags

On Facebook, I was having a deeply serious conversation about the use of exclamation marks, and my friend Indigo Roth said this: ‘Should it be: “Pollocks,” he exclaimed. Or “Pollocks!” he exclaimed. (Indigo actually used a more anatomical word, but I don’t want to get my blog blacklisted for bad language so I have used […]