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The Origin of Everyday Punctuation Symbols

Jul102007
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Neatorama has an aritlce on the origin of everyday punctuation marks.

I didn’t even know the pound sign (number sign, or hash sign) was called an octothorp…

Octothorp description

Check Neatorama for more symbols, including the question mark and dollar sign.

Link via Boing Boing

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