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  2. Apostrophe - Wikipedia

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    Anglicised versions of Irish surnames typically contain an apostrophe after an O (in place of Ó), for example "Dara O'Briain" for Dara Ó Bríain. Some Scottish and Irish surnames use an apostrophe after an M, for example M'Gregor. The apostrophe here may be seen as marking a contraction where the prefix Mc or Mac would normally appear.

  3. List of typographical symbols and punctuation marks - Wikipedia

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    Paragraph mark, paragraph sign, paraph, alinea, or blind P: Section sign ('Silcrow') ⌑ Pillow (non-Unicode name) 'Pillow' is an informal nick-name for the 'Square lozenge' in the travel industry. The generic currency sign is superficially similar | Pipe (non-Unicode name) (Unicode name is "vertical bar") + Plus sign: minus sign, ampersand: ±

  4. Here’s When You Should Use an Apostrophe - AOL

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    If the subject of the sentence is already plural, however, add the apostrophe after the “s.” Like the earlier example: “The dogs’ leashes.” The “s” makes the word plural; the ...

  5. 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.

  6. There's an apostrophe battle brewing among grammar ... - AOL

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    Woloshun chimed in with a similar opinion on the social platform X, where apostrophes are being thrown around like hand grenades. “The rule is simple: If you say the S, spell the S,” he argued.

  7. List of Unicode characters - Wikipedia

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    &#xhhhh; where nnnn is the code point in decimal form, and hhhh is the code point in hexadecimal form. The x must be lowercase in XML documents. The nnnn or hhhh may be any number of digits and may include leading zeros. The hhhh may mix uppercase and lowercase, though uppercase is the usual style.

  8. Prime (symbol) - Wikipedia

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    Usually, the meaning of x ′ is defined when it is first used, but sometimes, its meaning is assumed to be understood: A derivative or differentiated function: in Lagrange's notation, f ′ (x) and f ″(x) are the first and second derivatives of f (x) with respect to x. Likewise for f ‴(x) and f ⁗(x).

  9. Glossary of mathematical symbols - Wikipedia

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    3. Integral part: if x is a real number, [] often denotes the integral part or truncation of x, that is, the integer obtained by removing all digits after the decimal mark. This notation has also been used for other variants of floor and ceiling functions. 4.