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  2. Clipping (morphology) - Wikipedia

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    In linguistics, clipping, also called truncation or shortening, [1] is word formation by removing some segments of an existing word to create a diminutive word or a clipped compound. Clipping differs from abbreviation, which is based on a shortening of the written, rather than the spoken, form of an existing word or phrase.

  3. Cut-up technique - Wikipedia

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    This was part of an abandoned project called Guerrilla Conditions meant as a documentary on Burroughs and filmed throughout 1961–1965. Inspired by Burroughs' and Gysin's technique of cutting up text and rearranging it in random order, Balch had an editor cut his footage for the documentary into little pieces and impose no control over its ...

  4. Typographical error - Wikipedia

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    The Wicked Bible The Judas Bible in St. Mary's Church, Totnes, Devon, UK. The Wicked Bible omits the word "not" in the commandment, "thou shalt not commit adultery".. The Judas Bible is a copy of the second folio edition of the authorized version, printed by Robert Barker, printer to James VI and I, in 1613, and given to the church for the use of the Mayor of Totnes.

  5. Clipped compound - Wikipedia

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    In linguistics, a clipped compound is a word produced from a compound word by reducing its parts while retaining the meaning of the original compound. [1] It is a special case of word formation called clipping. Clipped compounds are common in various slang and jargon vocabularies. [1] A clipped compound word is actually a type of blend word ...

  6. Ruqʿah script - Wikipedia

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    It is a relatively simple and plain style, used for everyday writing and often used for signs. [1] The Ottoman calligraphers Mumtaz Efendi [ 2 ] (1810–1872) and Mustafa Izzet Efendi (1801–1876) are credited with standardizing the writing style which has existed in slightly different styles as everyday handwriting.

  7. Emphasis (typography) - Wikipedia

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    Other writing systems did not develop such sophisticated rules since spacing was so uncommon therein. In Cyrillic typography, it also used to be common to emphasize words using letter-spaced type. This practice for Cyrillic has become obsolete with the availability of Cyrillic italic and small capital fonts.

  8. Wikipedia : Manual of Style/Text formatting

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    There are five heading levels used in writing articles (the top-level one being reserved for the auto-displayed page name). [b] Terms in description lists (example: Glossary of the American trucking industry) Table headers and captions (but not image captions) A link to the page on which that link appears, called a self link

  9. Written language - Wikipedia

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    The first writing can be dated back to the Neolithic era, with clay tablets being used to keep track of livestock and commodities. The first example of written language can be dated to Uruk, at the end of the 4th millennium BCE. [15] An ancient Mesopotamian poem tells a tale about the invention of writing: