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Houston, who writes the Shady Characters blog, has corralled several stories related to various punctuation marks and typographical symbols, tracing them from their origins or earliest known uses to the present. The punctuation marks and symbols range from the everyday, such as quotation marks and hyphens, to the less common (e.g., asterisks and ampersands) and the obscure (e.g., the manicule—the pointing hand seen on many medieval and pseudomedieval shop signs). Most of the chapters address the symbols' creations or early uses and the ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More