Citations:percontation mark


 * 2005, John Lennard, The Poetry Handbook: A Guide to Reading Poetry for Pleasure and Practical Criticism (2nd ed.; Oxford University Press; ISBN 0199265380, 9780199265381), chapter 4: “Punctuation”, page 121
 * The percontation-mark (or punctus percontativus), the standard Arabic question-mark, indicated ‘percontations’, questions open to any answer or (more loosely) ‘rhetorical questions’, in various books of c.1575–c.1625. This usage seems to have been invented by the translator Anthonie Gilbie or his printer Henry Denham (a pioneer of the semi-colon): roman examples appear in their psalms of Dauid (1581), black letter ones in Turbervile’s Tragicall Tales (1587).²⁶
 * ²⁶ See Parkes, Pause and Effect, plates 34–5.