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Translingual

Etymology

There are two primary theories of the origin of the question mark. One is that Template:Angbr descends from the punctus interrogativus Template:Angbr, which instructed the reader (or singer) to raise the pitch of their voice while coming to a stop.

Another theory is that it derives from oQ, an abbreviation of Template:Der, placed at the end of a question to mark it as such, and analogous to the derivation of [[!|Template:Angbr]].[1]

There are no documented intermediary forms to support one theory over the other.

Punctuation mark

Template:Mul-punctuation mark

  1. Template:N-g
  2. Template:Lb Template:N-g
    Character #1: "I have no time to explain! Have you seen a Big Bad Wolf blowing down various houses?"
    Character #2: "?"
  3. Template:Lb Template:N-g

See also

  • For the reversed question mark used in some right-to-left scripts, such as the Arabic script, see Template:M.

Symbol

Template:Mul-symbol

  1. A placeholder for an unknown word, phrase, text, or numerical value.
  2. Template:Lb Indicator of a bad move.
  3. Template:Lb A wildcard for one character in query language.
  4. Template:Lb The ternary operator in some programming languages.
  5. Template:Lb Detects zero or one occurrences of the preceding element.
    The string colou?r matches both "color" and "colour".
  6. Template:Lb In a URL, begins a query string (a series of data formatted as field-value pairs).
    https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=Wiktionary:Word_of_the_day&action=view

Usage notes

Quotations

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Derived terms

See also

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References

  1. ↑ Alexander Humez, 1987, A B C et cetera: the life & times of the Roman alphabet

English

Noun

Template:En-noun

  1. Template:Lb A question.
    Template:Ux
  2. objects seen/shaped as the question mark
    Template:Ux

Adjective

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  1. Template:Lb Template:Abbreviation of Template:Rfv-sense

Spanish

Punctuation mark

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  1. Used in ¿ ?
  2. Template:Lb Marks a preceding passage as a question, without the starting ¿, as in English and other languages
    Template:Uxi

Usage notes

  • As SMS messaging and other forms of electronic communication have become more common, some Spanish-speakers use only ? for questions and ! for exclamations, leaving out the initial typographical mark. This is considered non-standard usage.

Coordinate terms

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