Overview

In our digital world, we owe much of our ability to communicate to the punctuation marks, mathematical symbols, and other glyphs that hover on the edges of our keyboard. Without these symbols, it would be impossible to convey meaning - our words would run in endless unbroken lines of letters and numbers. These marks, which have their origins in the earliest written communications, have evolved over many hundreds of years. Hyphens & Hashtags presents the histories of these stalwart symbols, revealing the long road many have taken on their way to general usage. In the age of digital communication, some symbols have gained additional meanings. The obscure pound sign has transformed into the hashtag, an essential component of social media. The colon now serves double duty as the eyes of the smiley-face emoticon. Alongside the historical roots of these tools, this book also considers ever-evolving modern usage and uncovers those symbols which have now fallen out of fashion. Hyphens & Hashtags casts a well-deserved spotlight on these deceptively simple marks, whose handy knack for conveying meaning in simple shorthand can marshal our sentences, clarify a calculation, or add some much-needed emotion to our online interactions.

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Author:   Claire Cock-Starkey
Publisher:   Bodleian Library
Imprint:   Bodleian Library
Weight:   0.360kg
ISBN:  

9781851245369

ISBN 10:   1851245367
Pages:   192
Publication Date:   26 March 2021
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Available To Order  
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Table of Contents

Contents introduction 1 punctuation 5 Full stop 12 Comma 17 Colon 21 Semicolon 26 Apostrophe 30 Question mark 34 Exclamation mark 38 Ellipsis 43 Quotation marks 47 Brackets 52 Hyphen 56 glyphs 61 Hash sign 66 At sign 70 Ampersand 73 Asterisk 77 Slash 81 Pound sign 85 Dollar sign 89 Euro sign 94 Copyright symbol 97 Emoticons & emoji 101 mathematical symbols 107 Zero 112 Plus sign 117 Minus sign 121 Multiply symbol 125 Divide symbol 129 Equals sign 132 Greater than & Less than 135 Per cent 138 Degree symbol 141 Pi 144 Infinity 147 endangered & extinct symbols 151 Tironian et 156 Interrobang 159 Tilde 162 Hedera 165 Pilcrow 167 Manicule 171 further reading 177 index 179

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Claire Cock-Starkey is a writer and editor of non-fiction books, including 'A Library Miscellany' (2018), 'The Book Lovers' Miscellany' (2017), 'Bodleianalia' (2016) and 'Famous Last Words' (2016).

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