Where does punctuation come from?!

Let’s explore this lot: ?!-“.’,(); and... 🌏 Get Exclusive NordVPN deal 4 months extra here → It’s risk-free with Nord’s 30-day money-back guarantee! ✌️ In this episode I trace the punctuation we use every day as far back as I can. ❓Is the question mark actually a word? ❗️Where did the exclamation mark come from? 🔴 Is the full stop the oldest punctuation? 🏛️ What punctuation did the Romans use? These questions answered and more as we explore the origins of punctuation. 👕GEEKY MERCH: ⭐️PATREON COMMUNITY: 📝FREE NEWSLETTER: Check me out on the web, on Twitter & TikTok: @robwords == SOME RESOURCES == 🪶 National Archive re Paleography: ❓Great BBC article: 📚Manuscript studies: ~sreimer/ms-course/course/ 🏺That papyrus: ==CHAPTERS== 0:00 Introduction 0:10 The space between words 1:34 What is punctuation? 2:04 The first punctuation 2:54 Period/full (.) stop & comma (,) 5:11 Colon (:) & semicolon (;) 6:57 NordVPN 7:55 Question mark (?) 10:12 Exclamation mark/point (!) 11:47 Quotation marks (“) 13:50 Brackets (()) 14:57 Dash (–) & hyphen (-) 16:00 Apostrophe (’) 17:28 Ellipsis (...) 18:40 MERCH!