History of Punctuation

1. Question Mark

At first, in Latin, to indicate the question, one must write the word "questio" at the end of a sentence to indicate that the sentence is interrogative sentence. So to save space, the word is finally shortened to qo, which is then compressed again into small letters above the letter q o, which ultimately are running out into worm-like dots and dashes, question marks just like we are now.

2. Exclamation mark

Like a question mark, also initially began by stacking letters. This sign comes from the Latin word "io" which means "cry of delight". when i is written above the letter o, shortened long as exclamation us today.

3. Equals sign

Discovered by English mathematician Robert Recorde in 1557, with this kind of thinking (in Old English) "I will settle as I doe woorke Often in use, a paire of paralleles, or Gmowe [ie, twin] lines of one length, Thus :, bicause noe 2 thynges, can be more equalle. " or translation: "I'm going to use the mark as usual, a pair of parallel lines, or a twin with the same length, because there are two more things that could be more of the same with the two parallel lines." Sign up with native Robert findings at least 5 times longer than we know today.

4. Ampersand (the "&")

This symbol is stilir form of "et" in Latin, which means "and." This sign was found by Marcus Tullius Tiro, a writer of the first century in Rome. Ampersand new name was given after 17 centuries later. In the early 1800s, schoolchildren learned this symbol as the 27th letter after Z, but still no where. So in the early 1800s with their belaar ABC "and per se, and" meaning "&" and then because of the speed of read, eventually became "ampersand"

5. Octothorp (a #)

Strange name for this numbering sign comes from the word "Thorpe," Ancient Normandy word for village or farm that is often encountered in English for the name of the place. Originally used for map-making, which means village surrounded by eight farms. Because eight (octa) and agriculture (thorpe), it appears this name, Octothorp

6. Dollar signs ($ sign)

The U.S. government recently issued their own money in 1794, and at that time still using old-world currency - pesos - or Spanish dollar. American 1 dollar coins exactly once as the first Spanish peso, both weight and value, so they take the same acronym: Ps. As time progress, the letter P written override S, and then began to circle above the P was removed, so just the letter S are overwritten with vertical lines.