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Appendix:Variations of "?" ❓ ❔ ︖ ﹖ ？ Translingual Etymology mul. There are two primary theories of the origin of the question mark. One states that ? descends from the punctus interrogativus ⹔, which instructed the reader (or singer) to raise the pitch of their voice while coming to a stop. Another theory is that it derives from , an abbreviation of mul la quaestiō question, placed at the end of a question to mark it as such, and analogous to the derivation of !.Alexander Humez, 1987, A B C et cetera: the life & times of the Roman alphabet There are no documented intermediary forms to support one theory over the other. Punctuation mark question mark interrogation mark interrogation point eroteme Used in various left-to-right scripts, including notably the Latin script, to mark the preceding sentence as a question. mul Then you're not coming tomorrow? mul She assumed he'd gone to visit his cousin. But why had he taken his passport? mul comics Internet slang Used by itself to convey that the speaker is confused. Character #1: "I have no time to explain! Have you seen a Big Bad Wolf blowing down various houses?" Character #2: "?" mul linguistics Marks the following word or phrase as questionable for a grammatical or semantic-pragmatic reason. en mul 2006 Renaat Declerck; Susan Reed; Bert Cappelle The Grammar of the English Verb Phrase 1 The Grammar of the English Tense System 9783110185898 6 A superscript question mark will be used similarly to indicate that a sentence or constituent is questionable for a grammatical or semantic-pragmatic reason. A double superscript question mark indicates an even higher degree of questionability.I have never { worked / ?been working } on a dissertationThis time tomorrow I { will / ??am going to } be driving to London. See also For the reversed question mark used in some right-to-left scripts, such as the Arabic script, see mul ؟ Zsym. Symbol A placeholder for an unknown word, phrase, text, or numerical value. en Thomas Hamilton (born 16??, died 17??) en mul 2009 Terry Stickels Math Puzzles and Brainteasers, Grades 3-5: Over 300 Puzzles that Teach Math and Problem-Solving Skills John Wiley & Sons 9780470564677 6 http://books.google.com.br/books?id=ceZaQbH2y4AC&pg=PA6#v=onepage&q&f=false What is the next number in the sequence below?1    4    9    16    25    36     ?  mul chess Indicator of a bad move. mul programming A wildcard for one character in query language. mul programming The ternary operator in some programming languages. mul regex Detects zero or one occurrences of the preceding element. The string colou?r matches both "color" and "colour". mul networking In a URL, begins a query string (a series of data formatted as field-value pairs). https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=Wiktionary:Word_of_the_day&action=view Derived terms mul (?) ¿ ? ?? ?! !? ‽ ⸮ See also mul ! !! ; hy:՞<tr:-> ؟ ？ References English Noun en text messaging A question. en i hav a ? 4 u I have a question for you objects seen/shaped as the question mark en a ? block a question-mark block Adjective en LGBTQ en questioning. en Spanish Punctuation mark es punctuation mark Used in es ¿ ?. es ¡ ! es nonstandard Marks a preceding passage as a question, without the starting ¿, as in other languages. es ! es Cómo estás? How are you? Usage notes As SMS messaging and other forms of electronic communication have become more common, some Spanish-speakers use only ? for questions and ! for exclamations, leaving out the initial typographical mark. This is considered non-standard usage.