Where do all of our punctuation marks come from?
How did we go from just these to all of these?
Find out right now in another RobWords.
Now, I'm going to start with something you perhaps weren't expecting.
This.
This here is the space we leave between words because before we get onto the dots, dashes and squiggles, it's worth a mention.
We should not take these helpful little gaps that pace out our sentences for granted because they haven't always been a given.
Did you know Greeks didn't use them?
Their sentences were just one long string of letters.
The Romans were just as bad.
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