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The colon, :, is a punctuation mark consisting of two equally sized dots aligned vertically. A colon often precedes an explanation, a list, [1] or a quoted sentence. [2] It is also used between hours and minutes in time, [1] between certain elements in medical journal citations, [3] between chapter and verse in Bible citations, [4] between a two numbers in a ratio, and, in the US, for ...
This article lists common abbreviations for grammatical terms that are used in linguistic interlinear glossing of oral languages [nb 1] in English. The list provides conventional glosses as established by standard inventories of glossing abbreviations such as the Leipzig Glossing rules , [ 2 ] the most widely known standard.
Its form is that of two triangles pointing toward each other rather than the two dots of Americanist notation. It is available in Unicode as U+02D0 ː MODIFIER LETTER TRIANGULAR COLON. If the upper triangle is used without the lower one (U+02D1 ˑ MODIFIER LETTER HALF TRIANGULAR COLON), it designates a half-long vowel or consonant. [2]
On October 20th, the Faculty of English announced that "ELAT scores [would] not be used in any formal shortlisting calculation." [2] In April 2024, the Faculty of English at the University of Oxford announced that it had "taken the decision not to set an admissions test (the Oxford ELAT) for candidates applying in October 2024 to study English."
The triple bar character in Unicode is code point U+2261 ≡ IDENTICAL TO (≡, ≡). [1] The closely related code point U+2262 ≢ NOT IDENTICAL TO (≢, ≢) is the same symbol with a slash through it, indicating the negation of its mathematical meaning.
A colon (from Greek: κῶλον, pl. κῶλα, cola [1] [2]) can be defined as a single unit of poetry. In textual criticism , a colon is a line consisting of a single clause . The term is most often used in the study of Hebrew poetry to refer to the fundamental unit of Hebrew poetry.
In English, when a quotation follows other writing on a line of text, a space precedes the opening quotation mark unless the preceding symbol, such as an em dash, requires that there be no space. When a quotation is followed by other writing on a line of text, a space follows the closing quotation mark unless it is immediately followed by other ...
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