Typographical symbols and punctuation marks are marks and symbols used in typography with a variety of purposes such as to help with legibility and accessibility, or to identify special cases. This list gives …

The full stop symbol derives from the Greek punctuation introduced by Aristophanes of Byzantium in the 3rd century BCE in Alexandria. [citation needed] In his system, there was a series of dots whose …

Punctuation developed dramatically when large numbers of copies of the Bible started to be produced. These were designed to be read aloud, so the copyists began to introduce a range of marks to aid …

Look up // in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. The two slashes // may indicate: a comment marker in several programming languages including C, C++, JavaScript and Java the root directory path in …

The exclamation mark ! (also known as exclamation point in American English) is a punctuation mark usually used after an interjection, an exclamation, a noise to indicate strong feelings (e.g. surprise, …

The colon, :, is a punctuation mark consisting of two equally sized dots aligned vertically. A colon often precedes an explanation, a list, [1] or a quoted sentence. [2] It is also used between hours and …

The apostrophe (’, ') is a punctuation mark, and sometimes a diacritical mark, in languages that use the Latin alphabet and some other alphabets. In English, the apostrophe is used for two basic purposes: …