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  2. List of typographical symbols and punctuation marks - Wikipedia

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    Feminine ordinal indicator, Degree sign: −: Minus sign: Hyphen-minus, Commercial minus: ×: Multiplication sign: X mark # Number sign: Numero sign. Also known as "octothorpe", "hash" and "hashtag sign" Pound sign № Numero sign: Number sign: Obelus: Division sign, Dagger, Commercial minus, Index ( ) Parenthesis: Bracket, Angle bracket ...

  3. Here’s When You Should Use an Apostrophe - AOL

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    An apostrophe is not an accessory. Here are examples of how and when to use an apostrophe—and when you definitely shouldn't. The post Here’s When You Should Use an Apostrophe appeared first on ...

  4. Apostrophe - Wikipedia

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    To make typographic apostrophes easier to enter, word processing and publishing software often convert typewriter apostrophes to typographic apostrophes during text entry (at the same time converting opening and closing single and double quotes to their standard left-handed or right-handed forms). A similar facility may be offered on web ...

  5. Obsolete and nonstandard symbols in the International ...

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    apostrophe: no audible release: k̚, t̚, etc. removed k', t', etc. apostrophe: palatalization: k̟, tʲ, etc. common in X-SAMPA: K T etc. uppercase letters (not small capitals) fortis: k͈ t͈, etc. used by some Koreanologists: ɔ̩ vowel with tilted line below lower-pitched rising / falling tone contour

  6. 'Grammar vigilante' sneaks around at night fixing bad apostrophes

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    The "Banksy of punctuation," who uses stickers rather than paint, denies it's a crime to go around the city to improve standards.

  7. Wikipedia:Manual of Style - Wikipedia

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    Use straight apostrophes ('), not curly apostrophes (’). [ g ] Do not use accent marks or backticks ( ` ) as apostrophes. Templates such as {{ ' }} and {{ 's }} are helpful when an apostrophe (or single quote) appears at the beginning or end of text in italics or bold, because italics and bold are themselves indicated by sequences of single ...

  8. 9 misprints that are worth a ton of money. Do you have a copy?

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    Typos can do more than damage the credibility of a publication. Penguin books in Australia recently had to reprint 7,000 copies of a now-collectible book because one of the recipes called for ...

  9. English punctuation - Wikipedia

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    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]