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  2. Obsolete and nonstandard symbols in the International ...

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    removed 1989; see click letters: ʞ: turned k: originally a palatal click, reinterpreted as a velar click: velar articulation was judged impossible. [9] later reanalyzed and found paralinguistically. For several years used for a voiceless velodorsal stop in the extIPA. [10] 𝼋 (⨎) esh with two bars voiced palatal implosive: ʄ: old form of ...

  3. 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 ...

  4. Scribal abbreviation - Wikipedia

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    A superscript letter generally referred to the letter omitted, but, in some instances, as in the case of vowel letters, it could refer to a missing vowel combined with the letter r, before or after it. It is only in some English dialects that the letter r before another consonant largely silent and the preceding vowel is "r-coloured".

  5. Legend-class cutter - Wikipedia

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    [23] [24] The NSC is equipped with a state-of-the-art damage-control system, that contributes to the ship's survivability. [25] The NSC is designed to U.S. Navy damage stability criteria and to level-1 survivability standards. [26] Most of the NSC design is compatible with ABS naval vessel rules. [27] The NSC has a degaussing capability. [28]

  6. Wikipedia : Manual of Style/Abbreviations

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    (For more guidance on the capitalisation of acronyms, see Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Capital letters#Acronyms.) Spacing: The letters of acronyms should not be spaced. Plurals: Plural acronyms are written with a lower-case s after the abbreviation, without an apostrophe, unless full points are used between the letters (e.g. ABCs or A.B.C.'s ...

  7. International Phonetic Alphabet - Wikipedia

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    A few letters, such as that of the voiced pharyngeal fricative, ʕ , were inspired by other writing systems (in this case, the Arabic letter ﻉ , ʿayn, via the reversed apostrophe). [9] Some letter forms derive from existing letters: The right-swinging tail, as in ʈ ɖ ɳ ɽ ʂ ʐ ɻ ɭ , indicates retroflex articulation.

  8. National security directive - Wikipedia

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    National Security Decision Directive 114, signed by Ronald Reagan. National security directives are presidential directives issued for the National Security Council (NSC). ). Starting with Harry Truman, every president since the founding of the National Security Council in 1947 has issued national security directives in one form or another, [1] which have involved foreign, military and ...

  9. Unicode subscripts and superscripts - Wikipedia

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    The spacing diacritic should be used for a baseline letter with a superscript release, such as [tˢʼ] or [kˣʼ], where the scope of the apostrophe includes the non-superscript letter, but the combining apostrophe U+315 might be used to indicate a weakly articulated ejective consonant like [ᵗ̕] or [ᵏ̕], where the whole consonant is ...