| Fun quiz. But are all of these considered "symbols"? (I wanted to put an interrobang there, but didn't know how).‽ It seems to me, some of these are more properly referred to as diacritical marks, logograms or other typographical characters (including ampersand, tilde, caret, pilcrow, interrobang), but not really "symbolic" of anything. One can make an argument for the Greek letters since they are common symbols in Math, physics, etc (but you could have even made those more apropos to the topic of "symbols" by offering clues like: "geometric angle", "standard deviation", "extent of reaction", etc, for which the included Greek letters are, in fact, symbols. |