Where does punctuation come from?!

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Let's explore this lot: ?!-".',(); and... 🌏 Get Exclusive NordVPN deal + 4 months extra here → https://nordvpn.com/robwordsVPN It’s risk-free with Nord’s 30-day money-back guarantee! ✌️ 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. 👕GEEKY MERCH: robwords.com/shop ⭐️PATREON COMMUNITY: patreon.com/robwords 📝FREE NEWSLETTER: http://www.robwords.com/newsletter Check me out on the web, on Twitter & TikTok: http://robwords.com http://x.com/robwordsYT http://tiktok.com/@robwords == SOME RESOURCES == 🪶 National Archive re Paleography: https://cdn.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documents/latin-palaeography-activities-and-documents.pdf ❓Great BBC article: https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20150902-the-mysterious-origins-of-punctuation 📚Manuscript studies: https://sites.ualberta.ca/~sreimer/ms-course/course/punc.htm 🏺That papyrus: https://www.google.com/url?q=https://quod.lib.umich.edu/a/apis/x-2042/3689r.tif%23rights-permissions&sa=D&source=docs&ust=1723839736764907&usg=AOvVaw3pDM5ASB4FTJ6HdH0aLVN- ==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!