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  2. Date and time notation in the United States - Wikipedia

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    For example, Thanksgiving is defined as being on "the fourth Thursday in November". Some such definitions are more complex. For example, Election Day is defined as "the Tuesday next after the first Monday in the month of November" or "the first Tuesday after November 1". [14] Calendars mostly show Sunday as the first day of the week.

  3. 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]

  4. Punctuation - Wikipedia

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    Punctuation marks are marks indicating how a piece of written text should be read (silently or aloud) and, consequently, understood. [1] The oldest known examples of punctuation marks were found in the Mesha Stele from the 9th century BC, consisting of points between the words and horizontal strokes between sections.

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

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    For example, the date of the attack on Pearl Harbor should be December 7, 1941 (Hawaii time/ date). Give priority to the place at which the event had its most significant effects; for example, if a hacker in Monaco attacked a Pentagon computer in the US, use the time zone for the Pentagon, where the attack had its effect.

  6. Wikipedia talk : Manual of Style/Dates and numbers/Archive 79

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    (Outdent) It appears that there is consensus that: (1) US usage should properly include the final comma, unless the item is immediatly followed by another punctuation mark, including an unspaced en dash (as in full date ranges); and (2) manually inserting the final comma incorrectly renders the formatting of the non-US date preferences, and ...

  7. ASCII - Wikipedia

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    Ninety-five of the encoded characters are printable: these include the digits 0 to 9, lowercase letters a to z, uppercase letters A to Z, and punctuation symbols. In addition, the original ASCII specification included 33 non-printing control codes which originated with Teletype models ; most of these are now obsolete, [ 13 ] although a few are ...

  8. Wikipedia : Guidance on applying the Manual of Style

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    For example, "Stop!" has the punctuation inside the quotation marks because the word "stop" is said with emphasis. However, when using "scare quotes", the comma goes outside. Other examples: Arthur said the situation was "deplorable". (The full stop (period) is not part of the quotation.)

  9. English grammar - Wikipedia

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    For example, my very good friend Peter is a phrase that can be used in a sentence as if it were a noun, and is therefore called a noun phrase. Similarly, adjectival phrases and adverbial phrases function as if they were adjectives or adverbs, but with other types of phrases, the terminology has different implications.

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