Punctuation

Punctuation marks are written symbols that do not correspond to either phonemes of a spoken language nor to lexemes of a written language, but which serve to organize or clarify writings. Some common examples used by English and other languages using the Roman alphabet are:

• /Comma?
• /Period?
• /Apostrophe?
• /Colon?
• /Semicolon?
• [/Question mark]?
• [/Exclamation point]?
• /Hyphen?
• [/En dash]?
• [/Em dash]?
• [/Single quotation mark]?
• [/Double quotation mark]?
• /Parenthesis?
• /Bracket?
• /Solidus?
• /Asterisk?
• /Ampersand?
• /Dagger?
• /Bullet?
• Octothorp
• [/At sign]?
• /Guillemot?

Also related are diacritical? marks, which serve to distinguish among similar sounds using the same primarly letter symbol, or to clarify emphasis or tone.

(NOTE: I've made these subpages solely for disambiguation for such terms as "dagger" and "colon" that will have different meanings at top level, and to make cross-linking easier. After UMW 0.92 is out, they should probably be "Bullet (Punctuation)" and so on. Also, top-level pages pointing here are certainly appropriate.)