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The following list, of about 350 words, is based on documented lists [4] [10] of the top 100, 200, or 400 [3] most commonly misspelled words in all variants of the English language, rather than listing every conceivable misspelled word. Some words are followed by examples of misspellings:
apostrophe: no audible release: k̚, t̚, etc. removed k', t', etc. apostrophe: palatalization: k̟, tʲ, etc. common in X-SAMPA: K T etc. uppercase letters (not small capitals) fortis: k͈ t͈, etc. used by some Koreanologists: ɔ̩ vowel with tilted line below lower-pitched rising / falling tone contour
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 ...
I'm running into an issue using Lupin's Anti-Vandal Tool spellchecker that I run into a page with a possessives without apostrophes being flagged because they are in a web link. Unfortunately the tool only checks up to the first misspelling on the list with each page save, so you'll never get any spelling errors after the misspelling in the web ...
The "Banksy of punctuation," who uses stickers rather than paint, denies it's a crime to go around the city to improve standards.
This page, Help:Punctuation, explains the use of punctuation marks in Wikipedia pages. In general, pages can contain the type of punctuation marks used in major English style guides.
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Syntactical use. A full stop (.) is a left-leaning punctuation mark. This means that it 'touches' the preceding word, but is followed by a space. It is ordinarily used at the end of a neutral declaratory sentence, be it a real sentence with a predicate or a non-sentence.