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  • === Punctuation === In addition to the apostrophes used for distinguishing the multiple sounds of a single Latin symbol, Wade-Giles uses hyphens ...
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  • usage of capitalization, layout, punctuation and syntax. There are ... Cummings is best known for his unique free verse. Punctuation, line ...
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  • #039;s Day or Patriots' Day? Punctuation confusion continues] Kennebec ... it to Patriot's Day (note different punctuation) in 1907. Fast Day continued ...
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  • six symbols to represent the alphabet. Punctuation takes up ten characters ... English braille codes the letters and punctuation, and some double ...
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  • of grammar, strange or absent punctuation, free verse, etc.) Others were close to Synthetic Cubism, especially in the case of Guillaume Apollinaire ...
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  • category:image wanted Collation is the assembly of written information into a standard order. This is commonly called alphabetization, though ...
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  • the magazine follows the usual American punctuation style and puts the semicolon ... #039;s pages together. "The Punctuation Farm," where commas ...
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  • elements to represent the letters, numerals, punctuation and special characters of a message. The short and long elements can be formed by sounds, marks ...
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  • to regularize the manuscripts' punctuation and capitalization to ... poems, with similarly normalized punctuation and capitalization; The ...
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  • Word separators, typically spaces and punctuation marks are common in modern ... * Orthographic boundaries: Word separators, such as spaces and punctuation ...
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  • === Punctuation === ==== Showing the ellipsis of letters ==== get its own termination mark. Such punctuation is diminishing with the ...
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  • In mathematics, a fraction (from the Latin fractus, broken) is a concept of a proportional relation between an object part and the object whole ...
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  • forming a vertical line. He allowed punctuation marks to go beyond that ... each letter, and the number of various punctuation marks and ligatures (for ...
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  • by constraints of style, structure, and punctuation, coming from the mind ... times dissociative) leaps in syntax and punctuation that can make the prose ...
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  • trained in the phonetic language, English punctuation, and usually in legal formatting. They are especially helpful when a court reporter is working ...
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  • Although normal English punctuation guidelines indicate that the holiday should be spelled "Fathers' Day" (as it is a plural possessive ...
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  • such as "is," and conventions regarding punctuation, are usually implied rather than stated as they would be in modern English. ...
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  • author name, in addition to conventions of punctuation, use of italics, emphasis, parenthesis, quotation marks, etc, particular to their style. ...
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  • SI Units are the most widely used system of units. They are the most common system for everyday commerce in the world, and are almost universally ...
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  • Arithmetic or arithmetics (from the Greek word αριθμός, meaning "number") is the oldest and most fundamental branch of mathematics ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Linguistics Slang is a set of highly informal words and expressions that are not considered standard ...
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  • aspects, prose style, best usage, grammar, punctuation, spelling, and fairness. Many style guides are revised periodically to accommodate changes ...
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  • as the final letter in a Roman numeral. Punctuation was used differently. ... corrected a number of minor errors in punctuation, and made the spelling ...
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  • deliver a joke, with band or orchestra chord punctuation after each line became a Durante trademark. In 1920, the group was renamed Jimmy Durante's ...
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  • such names as Ju/’hoansi and !Kung (the punctuation characters representing different clicks). Traditionally, the Bushmen have had a hunter ...
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  • setting. Scott included little in the way of punctuation in his drafts, which he left for the printers to supply. Stuart Kelly, [http://itre.cis ...
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  • combines the basic Dewey numbers with selected punctuation marks (comma, colon, parentheses etc.). Besides its frequent revision, DDC's main advantage ...
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  • . The text has been normalized to show modern punctuation and line- and word-division: :Nu scylun hergan    hefaenricaes uard :metudæs maecti    ...
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  • systems, words are not separated by blanks or by punctuation marks. However, certain glyphs tend to commonly appear at the end of words, making it possible ...
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  • of Old French. Rashi also provided punctuation where the original Hebrew did not, clarifying whether certain sentences were questions, exclamations ...
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  • The finished work was one paragraph with no punctuation marks. He said that he was writing the way that Neal Cassady spoke, "in a rush of madness ...
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  • broadly to include conventions of spelling and punctuation, which linguists would not typically consider as part of grammar but rather as part of orthography ...
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  • earlier print or copy errors, or changes in punctuation. Since 1989, the LDS Church's Brigham Young University has been publishing a critical ...
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  • relate to differences in vowelization and punctuation of the consonantal text. The differences between the LXX and the MT thus fall into four ...
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  • were written in vernacular Chinese with new punctuation, and New Youth became in pioneer in the movement to use vernacular Chinese in literature. ...
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  • speller and the letter is full of grammar, punctuation, and spelling mistakes. It was printed in various forms at least five times and photographed in ...
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  • between sexagesimal numerals. By 300 B.C.E. a punctuation symbol (two slanted wedges) was co-opted as a placeholder in the same Babylonian system. In ...
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  • prone to do--that either the spellings or the punctuation of any edition are Nostradamus' originals. Since his death, only the Prophecies ...
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  • U+FF9F (characters U+FF61–U+FF64 are halfwidth punctuation marks): {| |- align="center" | || ||0||1||2||3||4||5||6||7||8||9||A||B ...
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  • and others, such in general as spelling, punctuation, word-division, and the ... from the manuscript system of punctuation, capitalization, spelling ...
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  • by Lincoln himself differ in their wording, punctuation, and structure. Of these versions, the Bliss version has become the standard text. It is ...
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  • A number is an abstract mathematical object represented by a symbol that is used in counting and measuring. A symbol that represents a number ...
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  • chapters, changing the German and cleaning up the punctuation) and hence the original German text, that was not published, was altered. The editions by ...
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  • 1903), in which the great gong's cyclic punctuation is symbolized by a prominent perfect fifth. Direct homages to gamelan music are to be ...
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  • other (scripta continua) and there was no punctuation. Texts were written from right to left, left to right, and even so that alternate lines read ...
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  • words were not separated by spaces. Modern punctuation (commas, semicolon, and so on) was introduced with the advent of print.Charles Philip Brown ...
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  • the end—or a mistake in paragraphing, even punctuation. Henry James is the maestro of the semicolon. Hemingway is a first-rate paragrapher. From ...
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  • The punctuation, originally based on Byzantine Greek, was in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries reformulated on the French and German models. ...
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  • the text was corrected for printing and punctuation mistakes; Marx and Engels would use this 30-page version as the basis for future editions ...
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  • The swastika (from Sanskrit: svástika sa|स्वस्तिक ) is an equilateral cross with its arms bent at right angles, in either right ...
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