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Saturday, 12 January 2013
At first, in Latin, to indicate the question, one must write the word "questio" at the end of a 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 small letters above the letter q o, which eventually become more and more depleted worms like dots and dashes, question marks just like we are now.
2. Exclamation mark
Like the question mark, also initially began by stacking letters. This sign comes from the Latin word "io" means "cry of excitement".when written above the letter i letter o, long exclamation shortened as we are now.
3. Signs Equal
Invented by English mathematician Robert Recorde in 1557, with this kind of thinking (in Old English) "I will settle as I doe woorke Often in use, a paire of paralleles, or Gmowe [ie, twin] lines of one length, thus :, bicause noe 2 thynges, can be more equalle. "or translation:" I'm going to use these marks as usual, a pair of parallel lines, or a twin with the same length, because no two things could be more similar to the two parallel lines this. "sign with the original findings of Robert at least 5 times longer than what we know today.
4. Ampersand (the "&")
This symbol is stilir form of "et" in the Latin word for "and." This sign is found by Marcus Tullius Tiro, a writer of the first century in Rome.Ampersand name was only given after 17 centuries later. In the early 1800s, schoolchildren learned this symbol as the 27th letter after Z, but still no where. So in the early 1800s they belaar ABC "and per se, and" meaning "&" and then because of the speed of reading, eventually became "ampersand"
5. Octothorp (sign #)
Strange name for this numbering sign comes from the word "Thorpe", a word in ancient Normandy to the village or farm that is often encountered in English for place names. Originally used for map-making, which means village surrounded eight farms. Because eight (octa) and agriculture (thorpe), it appears this name, Octothorp
6. Dollar signs ($ sign)
The U.S. government recently issued their own money in 1794, and at that time still using old-world currency - pesos - or Spanish dollar.1 Dollar coin exactly once as the first American Spanish peso, both weight and value, so they take the same acronym: Ps. As time progress, the letter P written override S, and then began to circle above the P was removed, so only the letter S are overwritten with vertical lines.
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