Re: Diacritics (was: Question about "do")

Costentin Cornomorus scripsit:

> Sounds good, though I don't know the truth of the
> notion. I've seen some _long_ commas (,) or
> _short_ shillings (/) in use. Especially in
> French. Almost a halfslash.
The period, colon, semicolon, and comma were the original punctuation set
devised by Aldus Manutius (which Aldus Manutius, I don't know).  The
word "comma" is Greek for "cut off".

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