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Meantime, the 1983 film by Mike Leigh; Meantime, a cancelled video game; Meantime, the second album and major-label debut by Helmet, released in 1992 "Meantime", a 2007 song by Beatsteaks "Meantime", a song by The Futureheads from their album The Futureheads
There is, however, considerable variability in the use of the terms, to the extent that they are often used with the meanings reversed. Here are some definitions of French spacing: "Additional space at the ends of sentences is called 'French Spacing.' It is a very old practice, having been commonplace in books up through the 19th century" [7]
The distinction between use and mention can be illustrated with the word "cheese": [2] [3] Cheese is derived from milk. "Cheese" is derived from the Old English word ċēse. The first sentence is a statement about the substance called "cheese": it uses the word "cheese" to refer to that substance.
Punctuation in the English language helps the reader to understand a sentence through visual means other than just the letters of the alphabet. [1] English punctuation has two complementary aspects: phonological punctuation, linked to how the sentence can be read aloud, particularly to pausing; [2] and grammatical punctuation, linked to the structure of the sentence. [3]
During the 1st century BC, Romans also made occasional use of symbols to indicate pauses, but by the 4th century AD the Greek théseis —called distinctiones in Latin [a] —prevailed, as reported by Aelius Donatus and Isidore of Seville (7th century). Latin texts were sometimes laid out per capitula, where each sentence was placed on its own ...
In the Meantime (self-help book), a 2000 self-help book by Iyanla Vanzant In the Mean Time (comic book), a volume of the I Hate Fairyland comic book serial from Image Comics In the Mean Time: The Other Ends of the World Cartoons and Dark Light Verse (comic book), a 2010 comics volume by Anthony Haden-Guest
(Reuters) - U.S. homebuilder sentiment rose to a seven-month high in November and expectations for sales in the next six months surged to the highest in about two-and-a-half years after a ...
The most common use of the semicolon is to join two independent clauses without using a conjunction like "and". [20] Semicolons are followed by a lower case letter, unless that letter would ordinarily be capitalised mid-sentence (e.g., the word "I", acronyms/initialisms, or proper nouns). In older English printed texts, colons and semicolons ...