Show meaning of the points the interrogation nark or point 7 was originally a q and an the latter placed under the former they were simply the first and last 1 etera of the latin word quentio so too with the sign ot exclamation or interjection in its original purity it was a combination of 1 and the latter underneath as in the question mark the two stood for lo 10 the latin exclamation ot joy the paragraph mark Is a greek p the initial of the word paragraph the early printers employed a dagger to show that a word or sentence was objectionable and should be cut out |