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  2. Wikipedia : List of English contractions

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    without ’til (informal) until ’tis (informal) it is to’ve (informal) to have tryna (informal) trying to ’twas (informal) it was ’tween (informal) between ’twere (informal) it were w’all: we all w’at: we at wanna: want to wasn’t: was not we’d: we had / we would / we did we’d’ve: we would have we’ll: we shall / we will ...

  3. Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Dates and numbers - Wikipedia

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    This page guides the presentation of numbers, dates, times, measurements, currencies, coordinates, and similar items in articles. The aim is to promote clarity, cohesion, and consistency, and to make the encyclopedia easier and more intuitive to use.

  4. Date and time notation in Europe - Wikipedia

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    German grammar rules do not allow leading zeros in dates, however leading zeros were allowed according to machine writing standards if they helped aligning dates. In Germany, it is not uncommon in casual speech to use numbers to refer to months, rather than their names (e.g. der zweite erste – "the second first" – for 2 January).

  5. List of typographical symbols and punctuation marks - Wikipedia

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    Apostrophe, quotation marks: foot (unit), Inch, Minute, Second? Question mark: Inverted question mark, Interrobang “ ” " " ‘ ’ ' ' Quotation marks: Apostrophe, Ditto, Guillemets, Prime: Inch, Second ® Registered trademark symbol: Trademark symbol ※ Reference mark: Asterisk, Dagger: Footnote ¤ Scarab (non-Unicode name) ('Scarab' is ...

  6. Apostrophe - Wikipedia

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    The author and language commentator Anu Garg has called for the abolition of the apostrophe, stating "Some day this world would be free of metastatic cancers, narcissistic con men, and the apostrophe." [98] In his book American Speech, linguist Steven Byington stated of the apostrophe that "the language would be none the worse for its abolition".

  7. Wikipedia talk : Manual of Style/Dates and numbers/Archive 60

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    A-z]*” (RegEx notation) you should use that, but if all the notations are just customary you should follow the rules of the WP:MoS for units, because then it looks like a designation including units that has no prescribed format. Even if there is a standard or at least a NATO protocol (or whatever they call it) it is probably vague on the ...

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  9. English punctuation - Wikipedia

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    Punctuation in the English language helps the reader to understand a sentence through visual means other than just the letters of the alphabet. [1] English punctuation has two complementary aspects: phonological punctuation, linked to how the sentence can be read aloud, particularly to pausing; [2] and grammatical punctuation, linked to the structure of the sentence. [3]