punctus percontativus

Etymology

 * + = “ point”

Noun

 * 1) A reversed , visually almost identical to the  question mark , used to mark the end of a  statement.
 * 2) * 1995, Julia Briggs, “‘The Lady Vanishes’: Problems of Authorship and Editing in the Middleton Canon” in New Ways of Looking at Old Texts: Papers of the Renaissance English Text Society II: 1992–1996 (1998), ed. William Speed Hill, page 115:
 * These include Middleton’s idiosyncratic placing of apostrophes and deployment of punctuation marks — exclamation marks, question marks and a form of reversed question mark which Malcolm Parkes classifies as “punctus percontativus,” associated  with rhetorical questions.
 * These include Middleton’s idiosyncratic placing of apostrophes and deployment of punctuation marks — exclamation marks, question marks and a form of reversed question mark which Malcolm Parkes classifies as “punctus percontativus,” associated  with rhetorical questions.

Usage notes

 * Possible calques of include  and ; both are attested in isolated uses (2005, 2010), but neither has gained any currency.