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  2. Unusual eBay listings - Wikipedia

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    Bridgeville, California (population 25) was the first town to be sold on eBay in 2002, and has been up for sale three times since. [1] In January 2003, Thatch Cay, the last privately held and undeveloped U.S. Virgin Island, was listed for auction by Idealight International. The minimum bid was US$3 million and the sale closed January 16, 2003. [2]

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

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    Do not use a question mark (1291?), because it fails to communicate the nature of the uncertainty. Where c. or a similar form appears which applies only to one of the two endpoints of the range, use a spaced en dash ({{snd}}). Examples: 1896 – after 1954, 470 – c. 540, c. 470 – 540, c. 470 – c. 540.

  4. List of proofreader's marks - Wikipedia

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    Insert question mark: sp: Spell out: Used to indicate that an abbreviation should be spelled out, such as in its first use stet: Let it stand: Indicates that proofreading marks should be ignored and the copy unchanged tr: transpose: Transpose the two words selected wf: Wrong font: Put text in correct font ww [3] Wrong word: Wrong word used (e.g ...

  5. Mark (sign) - Wikipedia

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    A mark is a written or imprinted symbol used to indicate some trait of an item, for example, its ownership or maker. [1] [2] ...

  6. Wikipedia:Hyphens and dashes - Wikipedia

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    On iOS Devices, tap and hold (long press) the -on-screen key to display choices for the en dash "–" and em dash "—". The four hyphen/dash-like characters used in Wikipedia are: - is a hyphen-minus (ASCII 2D, Unicode 002D), normally used as a hyphen, or in math expressions as a minus sign – is an en dash (Unicode 2013).

  7. Tie (typography) - Wikipedia

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    "uniter", from ἑνωτικός "a serving to unite or unify"), papyrological hyphen, or Greek hyphen was a low tie mark found in late Classical and Byzantine papyri. [1] In an era when Greek texts were typically written scripta continua , the enotikon served to show that a series of letters should be read as a single word rather than ...

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  9. Syllabification - Wikipedia

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    A hyphenation algorithm is a set of rules, especially one codified for implementation in a computer program, that decides at which points a word can be broken over two lines with a hyphen. For example, a hyphenation algorithm might decide that impeachment can be broken as impeach-ment or im-peachment but not impe-achment .