Rosa (rrosie1213)

Race #574

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Official speed 96.13 wpm (70.78 seconds elapsed during race)
Race Start December 12, 2020 1:05:51am UTC
Race Finish December 12, 2020 1:07:01am UTC
Outcome Win (1 of 5)
Accuracy 97.0%
Points 150.61
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Deciding which way round to print the question mark wasn't as straightforward as you might think, incidentally. In its traditional orientation, with the curve to the right, it appears to cup an ear towards the preceding prose, which seems natural enough, though perhaps only because that's how we are used to seeing it. But people have always played around with it. In the 16th century the printer Henry Denham had the sophisticated idea of reversing the mark when indicating a rhetorical question (to differentiate it from a direct question), but it didn't catch on.