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In English writing, quotation marks or inverted commas, also known informally as quotes, talking marks, [1] [2] speech marks, [3] quote marks, quotemarks or speechmarks, are punctuation marks placed on either side of a word or phrase in order to identify it as a quotation, direct speech or a literal title or name.
The usage of curved quotation marks (ex. “quote” and ‘quote’) is growing in Portugal, [81] [better source needed] probably due to the omnipresence of the English language and to the corresponding difficulty (or even inability) to enter angular quotation marks on some machines (mobile phones, cash registers, calculators, etc.).
The ditto mark is a shorthand sign, used mostly in hand-written text, indicating that the words or figures above it are to be repeated. [1] [2]The mark is made using "a pair of apostrophes"; [1] "a pair of marks " used underneath a word"; [3] the symbol " (quotation mark); [2] [4] or the symbol ” (right double quotation mark).
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]
Guillemets may also be called angle, Latin, Castilian, Spanish, or French quotes/quotation marks. [citation needed] Guillemet is a diminutive of the French name Guillaume, apparently after the French printer and punchcutter Guillaume Le Bé (1525–1598), [5] though he did not invent the symbols: they first appear in a 1527 book printed by ...
The at sign, @, is an accounting and invoice abbreviation meaning "at a rate of" (e.g. 7 widgets @ £2 per widget = £14), [1] now seen more widely in email addresses and social media platform handles. It is normally read aloud as "at" and is also commonly called the at symbol, commercial at, or address sign.
AltGr+` produces ¦ (broken bar, shown as a secondary symbol) € is produced by AltGr+4 and is shown as a secondary symbol @ and " are swapped (to ⇧ Shift+' and ⇧ Shift+2, respectively) The \ key is moved to the left of the Z key (⇧ Shift+\ still produces |) The Enter key spans two rows, and is narrower to accommodate the #/~ key
TAI VIET SYMBOL HO HOI U+AADE: Po, other Tai Viet ꫟ TAI VIET SYMBOL KOI KOI U+AADF: Po, other Tai Viet TAMIL PUNCTUATION END OF TEXT U+11FFF: Po, other Tamil ౷ TELUGU SIGN SIDDHAM U+0C77: Po, other Telugu ๏ THAI CHARACTER FONGMAN U+0E4F: Po, other Thai ๚ THAI CHARACTER ANGKHANKHU U+0E5A: Po, other Thai ๛ THAI CHARACTER KHOMUT U+ ...