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They really aren't sure WHERE it came from...
http://en.allexperts.com/q/Anthropology-2291/question-point.htm
"The proper term is question mark. It is a rather old symbol from the middle ages and was used to signify an "unknown" on maps and in other documents. The symbol comes from the curve of an animals tail. If you have ever looked at a dog or cat, when the tilt their heads in a way to evoke a question? then look at the tail it looks like a question mark.
Over time, it has come to mean a "question" has been asked. Its first use in punctuation was in the 1400's in written documents kept by municipalities when a bit of information was unknown, the question mark was used to mark t he place the information was to be inserted when found."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Question_mark
"The symbol is sometimes 2 thought to originate from the Latin quaestiō (that is, qvaestio), meaning "question", which was abbreviated during the Middle Ages to Qo. The uppercase Q was written above the lowercase o, and this mark was transformed into the modern symbol.
Lynne Truss attributes an early form to Alcuin of York.3 Truss describes the punctus interrogativus of the late 700s as "a lightning flash, striking from right to left". The name "question mark" was coined in the late 1800s by Lee Coleman.4
Yet another view is that the question mark simply inverts the semicolon, which marked interrogative clauses in Ancient Greek (while enlarging the upper portion).
The origin of the question mark has also been associated with early musical notation like neumes.1"
http://en.allexperts.com/q/Anthropology-2291/question-point.htm
"The proper term is question mark. It is a rather old symbol from the middle ages and was used to signify an "unknown" on maps and in other documents. The symbol comes from the curve of an animals tail. If you have ever looked at a dog or cat, when the tilt their heads in a way to evoke a question? then look at the tail it looks like a question mark.
Over time, it has come to mean a "question" has been asked. Its first use in punctuation was in the 1400's in written documents kept by municipalities when a bit of information was unknown, the question mark was used to mark t he place the information was to be inserted when found."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Question_mark
"The symbol is sometimes 2 thought to originate from the Latin quaestiō (that is, qvaestio), meaning "question", which was abbreviated during the Middle Ages to Qo. The uppercase Q was written above the lowercase o, and this mark was transformed into the modern symbol.
Lynne Truss attributes an early form to Alcuin of York.3 Truss describes the punctus interrogativus of the late 700s as "a lightning flash, striking from right to left". The name "question mark" was coined in the late 1800s by Lee Coleman.4
Yet another view is that the question mark simply inverts the semicolon, which marked interrogative clauses in Ancient Greek (while enlarging the upper portion).
The origin of the question mark has also been associated with early musical notation like neumes.1"
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