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On the Mark: From Periods to Interrobangs, How Punctuation Remade the World
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A lively history of punctuation, from ancient times to the age of the emoji.
“Rich, wise, and elegantly told. This is a treasure chest of pleasingly obscure information.” —Dennis Duncan, author of Index, A History of the
You know the lively exclamation mark, the controversial semicolon, and the often-omitted apostrophe, but would you recognize a percontation point? How about an obelus? In this irreverent and delightfully intellectual book, Florence Hazrat argues that all punctuation marks, ...
“Rich, wise, and elegantly told. This is a treasure chest of pleasingly obscure information.” —Dennis Duncan, author of Index, A History of the
You know the lively exclamation mark, the controversial semicolon, and the often-omitted apostrophe, but would you recognize a percontation point? How about an obelus? In this irreverent and delightfully intellectual book, Florence Hazrat argues that all punctuation marks, ...