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How Irish monks invented punctuation
Morgane Afif, Aleteia
Thursday, February 1, 2024
The space between the words of a written text only entered into use in the 7th century, in the silence of Irish monasteries. Accustomed to the Old Irish alphabet – ancient precursor of their ‘modern’ language – and struggling to decipher Latin texts, the monks began to separate words from each other, using the space we know today. Before that, spaces were only spoken.