THE ORIGIN OF PUNCTUATION.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 4, Issue 87, 24 September 1915, Page 2 (Supplement)

THE ORIGIN OF PUNCTUATION.

The psinctiiittion marks which Kopar(\ie nn(l conclude sentences it:s»l therel>\ s inplily the peru-al nf what is written, nrn«aid to have heon first ciiploy- «• I li.v Aristophanes 'I Ik> >vsc(m <■ ! I>v him was not. however, genor;*' !y known, and poon fell again into comp'eto oblivion. It was nearly a thousand years before a similar attempt wa« ill mad'.>. It wan in the time of Charles the Great that punctuation murks wore aga.in introduced into wr ting to the instillation of the distinguished linguists, Warnofricd and Aleuiu. Thc.-e .ils:), however, fell into disuse. The pro-eat system of punctuat on. now itsivl in all modem angua.ges with hut i.n«ignific:ir , t vh ration*. was introduced in thp fir<-1 half of the fifteenth cinttirv 7>v YeiWhn irin*" - " unci Aldus .Mallutii'-'. He i-i th■<• rea! lathi v nf our pum-l nat icn marks. < f the full stop, comma. e;nicnY.u. colon, <"|iien!:on a-nxl e.xclamat n.i marks. ap trophe and inverted coir-n-.s. Al.nutiusK «v-!en\ was nlontel 1>'"" In- all printers until it finally (^t.:M : she.l ii-s-'f throughout Kuro|H\ Any girl (an -et a man into d'er li 'nit getting him to the nltar is what £he it'Dis at.