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In this episode I trace the punctuation we use every day as far back as I can.
❓Is the question mark actually a word?
❗️Where did the exclamation mark come from?
🔴 Is the full stop the oldest punctuation?
🏛️ What punctuation did the Romans use?
These questions answered and more as we explore the origins of punctuation.
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== SOME RESOURCES ==
🪶 National Archive re Paleography:
❓Great BBC article:
📚Manuscript studies: ~sreimer/ms-course/course/
🏺That papyrus:
==CHAPTERS==
0:00 Introduction
0:10 The space between words
1:34 What is punctuation?
2:04 The first punctuation
2:54 Period/full (.) stop & comma (,)
5:11 Colon (:) & semicolon (;)
6:57 NordVPN
7:55 Question mark (?)
10:12 Exclamation mark/point (!)
11:47 Quotation marks (“)
13:50 Brackets (())
14:57 Dash (–) & hyphen (-)
16:00 Apostrophe (’)
17:28 Ellipsis (...)
18:40 MERCH!
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