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.)