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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. Question mark - Wikipedia

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    Ella me pregunta «¿qué hora es?» – 'She asks me, "What time is it? " ' Question marks must always be matched, but to mark uncertainty rather than actual interrogation omitting the opening one is allowed, although discouraged: [15] Gengis Khan (¿1162?–1227) is preferred in Spanish over Gengis Khan (1162?–1227)

  4. Table of keyboard shortcuts - Wikipedia

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    de (keep space) Ctrl+Search+← Backspace: Delete word to the left of cursor Ctrl+← Backspace ⌥ Opt+← Backspace: Ctrl+← Backspace: Ctrl+← Backspace or. Meta+← Backspace. dge (delete space too) or. db (keep space) Ctrl+← Backspace: Go to start of line Home or. Fn+←. ⌘ Cmd+← (go to start of line) or. Ctrl+A (go to start of ...

  5. Diacritic - Wikipedia

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    A diacritic (also diacritical mark, diacritical point, diacritical sign, or accent) is a glyph added to a letter or to a basic glyph. The term derives from the Ancient Greek διακριτικός (diakritikós, "distinguishing"), from διακρίνω (diakrínō, "to distinguish").

  6. Cedilla - Wikipedia

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    A cedilla (/ s ɪ ˈ d ɪ l ə / sih-DIH-lə; from Spanish cedilla, "small ceda", i.e. small "z"), or cedille (from French cédille, pronounced), is a hook or tail (¸) added under certain letters (as a diacritical mark) to indicate that their pronunciation is modified.

  7. Irony punctuation - Wikipedia

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    Irony mark as designed by Alcanter de Brahm in a French encyclopedia from 1905 [9] Another irony point (French: point d'ironie) was proposed by the French poet Alcanter de Brahm (alias, Marcel Bernhardt) in his 1899 book L'ostensoir des ironies to indicate that a sentence should be understood at a second level (irony, sarcasm, etc.). It is ...

  8. Fig sign - Wikipedia

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    Among early Christians, it was known as the manus obscena, or 'obscene hand'. [1]In ancient Rome, the fig sign, or manu fica, was made by the pater familias to ward off the evil spirits of the dead as a part of the Lemuria ritual.

  9. Caret notation - Wikipedia

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    Caret notation is a notation for control characters in ASCII.The notation assigns ^A to control-code 1, sequentially through the alphabet to ^Z assigned to control-code 26 (0x1A).