Question Mark Cap
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$29.39
$29.39
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Product features
- Get your head in the game with this well-constructed baseball-style cap
- Structured, medium-to-high-profile crown with curved bill and firm inner lining
- Snapback closure for adjustable fit
- 100% polyester, fabric weight 8.4 oz / 285gsm
- Five-panel design with double-wide front panel for seamless printing
- Sized for ages 13+
- Spot clean with damp cloth
- Since every item is made just for you by your local third-party fulfiller, there may be slight variances in the product received
Question Mark
History Lynne Truss attributes an early form of the modern question mark in western language to Alcuin of York.2 Truss describes the punctus interrogativus of the late 8th century as, "a lightning flash, striking from right to left".3 (The punctuation system of Aelius Donatus, current through the Early Middle Ages, used only simple dots at various heights.) This earliest question mark was a decoration of one of these dots, with the "lightning flash" perhaps meant to denote intonation, and perhaps associated with early musical notation like neumes. Another possibility is that it was originally a tilde or titlo, as in " ·~ ", one of many wavy or more or less slanted marks used in medieval texts for denoting things such as abbreviations, which would later become various diacritics or ligatures.45 Over the next three centuries this pitch-defining element (if it ever existed) seems to have been forgotten, so that the Alcuinesque stroke-over-dot sign (with the stroke sometimes slightly curved) is often seen indifferently at the end of clauses, whether they embody a question or not. In the early 13th century, when the growth of communities of scholars (universities) in Paris and other major cities led to an expansion and streamlining of the book-production trade,6 punctuation was rationalized by assigning Alcuin's stroke-over-dot specifically to interrogatives; by this time the stroke was more sharply curved and can easily be recognized as the modern question mark. It has also been suggested that the glyph derives from the Latin quaestiō meaning "question", which was abbreviated during the Middle Ages to qo.7 The lowercase q was written above the lowercase o, and this mark was transformed into the modern symbol. However, evidence of the actual use of the Q-over-o notation in medieval manuscripts is lacking; if anything, medieval forms of the upper component seem to be evolving towards the q-shape rather than away from it.
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