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  2. Asterisk - Wikipedia

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    In phonetic transcription using the International Phonetic Alphabet and similar systems, an asterisk was historically used to denote that the word it preceded was a proper noun. [42] [43] See this example from W. Perrett's 1921 transcription of Gottfried Keller's Das Fähnlein der sieben Aufrechten: [44] ˈkɑinə ˈreːdə, virt ˈniçts ...

  3. List of typographical symbols and punctuation marks - Wikipedia

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    Asterisk, Dagger: Footnote ¤ Scarab (non-Unicode name) ('Scarab' is an informal name for the generic currency sign) § Section sign: section symbol, section mark, double-s, 'silcrow' Pilcrow; Semicolon: Colon ℠ Service mark symbol: Trademark symbol / Slash (non-Unicode name) Division sign, Forward Slash: also known as "stroke" / Solidus

  4. Dagger (mark) - Wikipedia

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    [1] [25] The asterisk and the dagger, when placed beside years, indicate year of birth and year of death respectively. [5] This usage is particularly common in German. [26] When placed immediately before or after a person's name, the dagger indicates that the person is deceased. [5] [27] [28] [29] In this usage, it is referred to as the "death ...

  5. Wikipedia:Diacritical marks - Wikipedia

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    Be sure the accents are clearly marked, accurate, and consistent. Pay particular attention to proper names and titles of works (the rules of placement of accents in Spanish hold for all place names in Spanish, even on words that were hispanicized from other languages such as Nahuatl or Mayan, except for words that have accepted English spellings).

  6. Wikipedia : Manual of Style/Text formatting

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    Named, specific vessels: proper names given to: Ships, with ship prefixes , classification symbols , pennant numbers , and types in normal font: USS Baltimore (CA-68) . Italicize ship names when they appear in the names of classes of ships ( the Baltimore -class cruisers ).

  7. Wikipedia:Colons and asterisks - Wikipedia

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    If the gap is between a colon list and an asterisk list, there is no issue, as the HTML is identical with or without the blank line. Likewise, a single-line gap between an unindented line and an indented line makes no difference. Leaving multiple lines, however, will cause the creation of an empty paragraph.

  8. 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.

  9. English terms with diacritical marks - Wikipedia

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    Some sources distinguish "diacritical marks" (marks upon standard letters in the A–Z 26-letter alphabet) from "special characters" (letters not marked but radically modified from the standard 26-letter alphabet) such as Old English and Icelandic eth (Ð, ð) and thorn (uppercase Þ, lowercase þ), and ligatures such as Latin and Anglo-Saxon Æ (minuscule: æ), and German eszett (ß; final ...