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  2. English compound - Wikipedia

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    Short compounds may be written in three different forms, which do not correspond to different pronunciations, though: The spaced or open form [6] usually consisting of newer combinations or longer words, [7] such as "distance learning", "player piano", "ice cream". [8] The hyphenated form in which two or more words are connected by a hyphen ...

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

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    Only figures are used with unit symbols (12 min not twelve min); but figures or words may be used with unit names (12 minutes or twelve minutes), subject to the provisions above. Other numbers. Other numbers are given in numerals (3.75, 544) or in forms such as 21 million (or billion, trillion, etc. – but rarely thousand or hundred).

  4. English numerals - Wikipedia

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    After "nine", one can head straight back into the 10, 11, 12, etc., although some write out the numbers until "twelve". Example: "I have 28 grapes." (Preferred) Example: "I have twenty-eight grapes." Another common usage is to write out any number that can be expressed as one or two words, and use figures otherwise. Examples:

  5. List of typographical symbols and punctuation marks - Wikipedia

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    (non-Unicode name) ('Scarab' is an informal name for the generic currency sign) § Section sign: section symbol, section mark, double-s, 'silcrow' Pilcrow; Semicolon: Colon ℠ Service mark symbol: Trademark symbol / Slash (non-Unicode name) Division sign, Forward Slash: also known as "stroke" / Solidus (the most common of the slash symbols ...

  6. Wikipedia:Manual of Style - Wikipedia

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    [m] Examples: German Shepherd, Russian White goat, Berlin Short-faced Tumbler. As with plant cultivars, this applies whether or not the included noun is a proper name, in contrast to how vernacular names of species are written.

  7. How To Write Numbers in Words on a Check - AOL

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    Write the recipient’s name on the line next to “Pay to the order of.” Write the amount in numbers in the box with the dollar sign. On the row beneath “Pay to the order of,” write the ...

  8. English orthography - Wikipedia

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    In the tables, the hyphen has two different meanings. A hyphen after the letter indicates that it must be at the beginning of a syllable, e.g., j - in jumper and ajar. A hyphen before the letter indicates that it cannot be at the beginning of a word, e.g., - ck in sick and ticket.

  9. Wikipedia : Manual of Style/Capital letters

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    On Wikipedia, most acronyms are written in all capital letters (such as NATO, BBC, and JPEG).Wikipedia does not follow the practice of distinguishing between acronyms and initialisms; unless that is their common name, do not write word acronyms, that are pronounced as if they were words, with an initial capital letter only, e.g., do not write UNESCO as Unesco, or NASA as Nasa.