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who was it ?
Sat, 28 Oct 2006 23:38:48 +0100
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John in Cornwall...
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Who was it, that invented the question mark ?
On this note I will wish you all goodnight.
John
Baldrick...
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Dr Evil's Father claimed to have invented the question mark.
(Austin Powers, International man of mystery - 1997).
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MCC...
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Doesn't tell you *who* invented it, but it does tell you something of how
it originated.
Origins (from Wikipedia)
The symbol is generally thought to originate from the Latin quaestio,
meaning "question", which was abbreviated to Qo. The uppercase Q was
written above the lowercase o, and this mark was transformed into the
modern symbol. Another hypothesis about the origin of the question mark
proposes that the mark originated in the 9th century, when it appeared as a
point followed by the curvy bit written slanted (similar to the tilde,
although the tilde was tilted more upward to the right). The point has
always indicated the end of a sentence. The curved line represented the
intonation pattern of a spoken question, and may be associated with a kind
of early musical notation, like neumes.
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Flyiñg Ñuñ 2°°6 +...
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Google doesn't seem to know, so I guess there couldn't have been one. :(
JoeH...
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Wikipedia has a bit of an idea :-)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Question_mark
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