The Origin of the Question Mark
The Origin of the Question Mark (?):
When early scholars would write in Latin, they placed the word "questio" (meaning “question”) at the end of a sentence to indicate a query. To conserve valuable space, writing was soon shortened to "qo". This caused another problem, as readers might mistake it for the ending of a word. So they squashed the letters into a symbol: a lowercased q on top of an o. Over time the o shrank to a dot and the q to a squiggle, giving us our current question mark.
In Greek, the question mark is a semicolon (;)
