Question mark

thumb| The question mark ? (also known as interrogation point, query, or eroteme in journalism) is a punctuation mark that indicates a question or interrogative clause or phrase in many languages. Quotes Behold the wicked little barbWhich catches fish in human garbAnd yanks them back when they feel gayWith "Will it last?" or "Does it pay?"It fastens neatly in the gillsOf those who have uncertain wills,But even wily eels are caughtUpon this bent pin of a thought. Persis Greely Anderson, "The Question Mark", in The New Yorker (11 October 1930), p. 73 "He lives at Balbec?" crooned the Baron in a tone so far from interrogatory that it is regrettable that the written language does not possess a sign other than the question mark to end such apparently unquestioning remarks. It is true that such a sign would be of little use except to M. de Charlus. Marcel Proust, Remembrance of Things Past, vol. ii (tr. C. K. Scott Moncrieff and Terence Kilmartin, 1981) External links Category:Writing