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  2. Wikipedia:Manual of Style - Wikipedia

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    The English-language titles of compositions (books and other print works, songs and other audio works, films and other visual media works, paintings and other artworks, etc.) are given in title case, in which every word is given an initial capital except for certain less important words (as detailed at Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Capital letters ...

  3. Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Capital letters - Wikipedia

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    Wikipedia avoids unnecessary capitalization.In English, capitalization is primarily needed for proper names, acronyms, and for the first letter of a sentence. [a] Wikipedia relies on sources to determine what is conventionally capitalized; only words and phrases that are consistently capitalized in a substantial majority of independent, reliable sources are capitalized in Wikipedia.

  4. Wikipedia : Simplified Manual of Style

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    This Simplified Manual of Style is an overview of commonly used style guidelines taken from the Wikipedia:Manual of Style and its subpages (together called the MoS).When a MoS guideline offers a choice of style, use only one alternative consistently throughout an article, and do not unreasonably alter a choice that has already been made.

  5. Tontine - Wikipedia

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    Tontine Hotel sign, Ironbridge, Shropshire, UK A tontine (/ ˈ t ɒ n t aɪ n,-iː n, ˌ t ɒ n ˈ t iː n /) is an investment linked to a living person which provides an income for as long as that person is alive.

  6. Slang terms for money - Wikipedia

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    Slang terms for money often derive from the appearance and features of banknotes or coins, their values, historical associations or the units of currency concerned. Within a language community, some of the slang terms vary in social, ethnic, economic, and geographic strata but others have become the dominant way of referring to the currency and are regarded as mainstream, acceptable language ...

  7. Word - Wikipedia

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    A morphology tree of the English word "independently" Morphology is the study of word formation and structure. Words may undergo different morphological processes which are traditionally classified into two broad groups: derivation and inflection. Derivation is a process in which a new word is created from existing ones, with an adjustment to ...

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

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    The body [h] of non-scientific/ non-technical articles may use either the % symbol or the word(s) percent (American English) or per cent (British English): 10 percent; ten percent; 4.5 per cent. Ranges are written 10–12% , ten to twelve per cent , or ten to twelve percent ; not ten–twelve per cent , 10%–12% , or 10 to 12% .

  9. Senior - Wikipedia

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    Senior citizen, a common designation for a person 65 and older in UK and US English Senior (athletics), an age athletics category; Senior status, form of semi-retirement for United States federal judges; Senior debt, a form of corporate finance; Senior producer, a title given usually to the second most senior person of a film of television ...