History of Punctuation

1. Question Mark
At first, in Latin, to indicate a question, one must write the word "Question" at the end of the sentence to indicate that the sentence would be asked. So to save space, the word is finally shortened to qo, which is then compressed again into smaller letter q over the letter o, which eventually grew up into dots and dashes like a worm, just as we are now a question mark.

2. Exclamation mark
Like a question mark, initially starting with the letters piled up. This sign comes from the Latin word "io" which means "cry of excitement". when the letter i written over the letter o, shortened long as we are now an exclamation point.

3. Equals sign
Invented by English mathematician Robert Recorded in 1557, with thinking like this (in Old English) "I Will settle as I doe worke Often in use, a paire of paralleles, or Gmowe [ie, twin] lines of one length, thus :, because noe 2 thynges, can be more equalle. " or translation: "I will use this sign as usual, a pair of parallel lines, or twin with the same length, because no two things could be more similar to these two parallel lines." Original findings of the equal sign Robert least 5 times longer than what we know today.

4. Ampersand (the "&")
This symbol is stilir form of "et" in Latin meaning "and." This sign is found by Marcus Tullius Tiro, an author of the first century in Rome. Ampersand new name is given after 17 centuries later. In the early 1800s, school children learn these symbols as letters to 27 after Z, but still no where. So in the early 1800s they belaar ABC with "and per se, and" meaning "&" and then read so fast because, eventually became "ampersand"

5. Octothorp (a #)
Strange name for this numbering sign comes from the word "Thorpe", said the language of Ancient Normandy to the village or agricultural land that is often encountered in English to name the place. Initially used for map-making, which means village surrounded by eight farm. Because eight (Octal) and agriculture (Thorpe), it appears this name, Octothorp.

6. Dollar sign ($ sign)
The new U.S. government issued their own money in 1794, and at that time was still using the old world currencies - pesos - or Spanish dollar. 1 Dollar coin exactly once as the first American Spanish peso currency, both weight and value, so they take the same acronym: Ps. The longer the development, the letter P written upon S, and then began to circle above the P was removed, so only the letter S is overwritten with a vertical line.


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