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  2. National conventions for writing telephone numbers - Wikipedia

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    Belgium. Belgian telephone numbers consist of three parts: First '0', secondly the "zone prefix" (A) which has one or two digits for landlines and three digits for mobile phones, and thirdly the "subscriber's number" (B). Land lines always have nine digits. They are prefixed by a zero, followed by the zone prefix.

  3. Syllabification - Wikipedia

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    A hyphenation algorithm is a set of rules, especially one codified for implementation in a computer program, that decides at which points a word can be broken over two lines with a hyphen. For example, a hyphenation algorithm might decide that impeachment can be broken as impeach-ment or im-peachment but not impe-achment .

  4. American and British English spelling differences - Wikipedia

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    [41] This is a reverse of the typical rule, where British spelling uses the ae/oe and American spelling simply uses e. Words that can be spelled either way in British English include cham a eleon , encyclop a edia , hom o eopathy , medi a eval (a minor variant in both AmE and BrE [ 42 ] [ 43 ] [ 44 ] ), f o etid and f o etus .

  5. Hyphen - Wikipedia

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    The hyphen ‐ is a punctuation mark used to join words and to separate syllables of a single word. The use of hyphens is called hyphenation. [1]The hyphen is sometimes confused with dashes (en dash –, em dash — and others), which are wider, or with the minus sign −, which is also wider and usually drawn a little higher to match the crossbar in the plus sign +.

  6. Line wrap and word wrap - Wikipedia

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    Word wrap is the additional feature of most text editors, word processors, and web browsers, of breaking lines between words rather than within words, where possible. Word wrap makes it unnecessary to hard-code newline delimiters within paragraphs, and allows the display of text to adapt flexibly and dynamically to displays of varying sizes.

  7. Wikipedia talk : Manual of Style/Dates and numbers/Archive 49a

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    Most editors can only easily enter hyphens, and that's fine, but en dashes are typographically correct, so I change incorrectly-used hyphens whenever I am copy-editing. I type literal dashes (hyphen: - en dash: – em dash —), so it doesn't ugly up the wikitext or inconvenience other editors .

  8. Morse code - Wikipedia

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    This Morse key was originally used by Gotthard railway, later by a shortwave radio amateur [2] Morse code is a telecommunications method which encodes text characters as standardized sequences of two different signal durations, called dots and dashes, or dits and dahs. [3][4] Morse code is named after Samuel Morse, one of the early developers ...

  9. Double-barrelled name - Wikipedia

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    Double-barrelled name. A double-barrelled name is a type of compound surname, typically featuring two words (occasionally more), often joined by a hyphen. Notable people with double-barrelled names include Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, Sacha Baron Cohen and JuJu Smith-Schuster. In the Western tradition of surnames, there are several types of ...