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  2. English numerals - Wikipedia

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    10,000: a myriad (a hundred hundred), commonly used in the sense of an indefinite very high number. 100,000: a lakh (a hundred thousand), in Indian English. 10,000,000: a crore (a hundred lakh), in Indian English and written as 100,00,000. 10 100: googol (1 followed by 100 zeros), used in mathematics.

  3. Hyphen - Wikipedia

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    The hyphen ‐ is a punctuation mark used to join words and to separate syllables of a single word. The use of hyphens is called hyphenation. [1]The hyphen is sometimes confused with dashes (en dash –, em dash — and others), which are wider, or with the minus sign −, which is also wider and usually drawn a little higher to match the crossbar in the plus sign +.

  4. List of typographical symbols and punctuation marks - Wikipedia

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    Typographical symbols and punctuation marks are marks and symbols used in typography with a variety of purposes such as to help with legibility and accessibility, or to identify special cases. This list gives those most commonly encountered with Latin script. For a far more comprehensive list of symbols and signs, see List of Unicode characters.

  5. Longest word in English - Wikipedia

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    The longest English word typable using only the top row of letters has 11 letters: rupturewort. The word teetertotter (used in North American English) is longer at 12 letters, although it is usually spelled with a hyphen. The longest using only the middle row is shakalshas (10 letters).

  6. Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Dates and numbers - Wikipedia

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    Manual of Style (MoS) This page guides the presentation of numbers, dates, times, measurements, currencies, coordinates, and similar items in articles. The aim is to promote clarity, cohesion, and consistency, and to make the encyclopedia easier and more intuitive to use. For numbers, dates, and similar items in Wikipedia article titles, see ...

  7. How To Write Numbers in Words on a Check - AOL

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    Write the date in the upper right corner. Write the recipient’s name on the line next to “Pay to the order of.”. Write the amount in numbers in the box with the dollar sign. On the row ...

  8. Syllabification - Wikipedia

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    For example, it is not possible to syllabify "learning" as lear-ning according to the correct syllabification of the living language. Seeing only lear-at the end of a line might mislead the reader into pronouncing the word incorrectly, as the digraph ea can hold many different values. The history of English orthography accounts for such phenomena.

  9. Wal-Mart -- or is it Walmart? -- tries to shed its hyphen - AOL

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    Although the star is optional, the hyphen, or lack thereof, is not: Wal-Mart is no more. Actually, they made the change a year ago and, as a commenter on a recent story pointed out, I am guilty of ...