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Upside-down marks, simple in the era of hand typesetting, were originally recommended by the Real Academia Española (Royal Spanish Academy), in the second edition of the Ortografía de la lengua castellana (Orthography of the Castilian language) in 1754 [3] recommending it as the symbol indicating the beginning of a question in written Spanish—e.g. "¿Cuántos años tienes?"
In Portuguese the apostrophe is used to reproduce certain popular pronunciations such as s'enxerga (pay attention to yourself) or in a few combinations of word, when there is the suppression of the vowel of the preposition de in certain compound words (the ones formed by two or more stems) such as caixa-d'água ('water tower'), galinha-d'angola ...
Signos (Spanish for Signs) is the third studio album recorded by Argentine rock band Soda Stereo, released on 10 November 1986. It was remastered in 2007 at Sterling Sound Studios in New York. In 2007, the Argentine edition of Rolling Stone ranked it 25 on its list of " The 100 Greatest Albums of National Rock ".