eroteme

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-- The words _eroteme_ and _ecphoneme_, which, like _aposteme_ and

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  1. The mark or note of interrogation: a name adopted by the grammarian Goold Brown, but not in common use.

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  • -- The words _eroteme_ and _ecphoneme_, which, like _aposteme_ and —  The Grammar of English Grammars
  • -- Not proper, because an eroteme is set after _store_, where a comma would be sufficient. —  The Grammar of English Grammars
  • In Greek, the difference is greater: the colon, expressed by the upper dot alone, is the only point between the comma and the period; the ecphoneme, or note of exclamation, is hardly recognized, though some printers of the classics have occasionally introduced it; and the eroteme, or note of interrogation, retains in that language its pristine form, which is that of our semicolon. —  The Grammar of English Grammars
  • When two or more questions are united in one compound sentence, the comma, semicolon, or dash, is sometimes used to separate them, and the eroteme occurs after the last only; as, 1. —  The Grammar of English Grammars
  • -- The value of the eroteme as a sign of pause, is stated very differently by different grammarians; while many of the vast multitude, by —  The Grammar of English Grammars
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  1. from Late Latin erotema, from Greek ἐρώτημα, a question, from ἐρωτᾰν, ask.
 

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