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  2. Upside-down question and exclamation marks - Wikipedia

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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?"

  3. List of Spanish words of Germanic origin - Wikipedia

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    Some of these words existed in Latin as loanwords from other languages. Some of these words have alternate etymologies and may also appear on a list of Spanish words from a different language. Some words contain non-Germanic elements (see béisbol in the Middle English section). Any form with an asterisk (*) is unattested and therefore ...

  4. Wikipedia:98 percent table width anomaly - Wikipedia

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    Normally, a plain table (with no "class=") can be sized to any width up to "100%" without triggering a bottom scrollbar. However, the styles for "class=wikitable" or "wikitable sortable" have added an implicit right-side margin-right padding that fits okay up to 98% width.

  5. Scrollbar - Wikipedia

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    Examples of horizontal and vertical scrollbars around a text box Examples of vertical scrollbar at right end of Wikipedia home page. A scrollbar is an interaction technique or widget in which continuous text, pictures, or any other content can be scrolled in a predetermined direction (up, down, left, or right) on a computer display, window, or viewport so that all of the content can be viewed ...

  6. Spanish naming customs - Wikipedia

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    Currently in Spain, people bear a single or composite given name (nombre in Spanish) and two surnames (apellidos in Spanish).. A composite given name is composed of two (or more) single names; for example, Juan Pablo is considered not to be a first and a second forename, but a single composite forename.

  7. Spanish dialects and varieties - Wikipedia

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    In the 16th century, as the Spanish colonization of the Americas was beginning, the phoneme now represented by the letter j had begun to change its place of articulation from palato-alveolar [ʃ] to palatal [ç] and to velar [x], like German ch in Bach (see History of Spanish and Old Spanish language). In southern Spanish dialects and in those ...

  8. Spanish solution - Wikipedia

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    Spanish solution diagram: passengers board from the left platform and alight in the middle island. In railway and rapid transit parlance, the Spanish solution is a station layout with two railway platforms , one on each side of the track, [ 1 ] which allows for separate platforms for boarding and alighting.

  9. Spanish Wikipedia - Wikipedia

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    The countries in which the Spanish Wikipedia is the most popular language version of Wikipedia are shown in yellow. Page views by country of origin on the Spanish Wikipedia The Spanish Wikipedia has the second most registered users, after the English Wikipedia , and the fifth most active users, after the English, French , German and Japanese ...