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An interpunct ·, also known as an interpoint, [1] middle dot, middot, centered dot or centred dot, is a punctuation mark consisting of a vertically centered dot used for interword separation in Classical Latin. (Word-separating spaces did not appear until some time between 600 and 800 CE.) It appears in a variety of uses in some modern languages.
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]
Some people use the Oxford comma (also known as the Harvard or serial comma). This is a comma before "and" or "or" at the end of a series, regardless of whether it is needed for clarification purposes. For example: X, Y, and Z (with an Oxford comma) X, Y and Z (without an Oxford comma)
rare letters: x, y (except in loanwords) letter c rarely used except in the sequences listed above and in loanwords; long compound words; a period (.) after ordinal numbers, e.g. 3. Oktober; many capitalised words in the middle of sentences since German capitalizes all nouns.
[8] [1] The word period was used as a name for what printers often called the "full point", the punctuation mark that was a dot on the baseline and used in several situations. The phrase full stop was only used to refer to the punctuation mark when it was used to terminate a sentence. [ 1 ]
All about the Oxford comma, including when it may or may not be necessary.
The symbol d̦ ('d with comma below') was used as part of the Romanian transitional alphabet (19th century) to indicate the sounds denoted by the Latin letter z or letters dz , where derived from a Cyrillic ѕ ( ѕ , /dz/). The comma and the cedilla are both derivative of ʒ (a small cursive z ) placed below the letter.
The letter was originally introduced in 1513 by Stanisław Zaborowski in his book Ortographia. [ 2 ] Occasionally, the letter Ƶ ƶ (Z with a horizontal stroke) is used instead of Ż ż for aesthetic purposes, especially in all-caps text and handwriting.