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The colon:, is a punctuation mark consisting of two equally sized dots aligned vertically. A colon often precedes an explanation, a list, [1] or a quoted sentence. [2] It is also used between hours and minutes in time, [1] between certain elements in medical journal citations, [3] between chapter and verse in Bible citations, [4] and, in the US, for salutations in business letters and other ...
Another slang name is caña (Spanish for sugar cane, plural cañas) but this term is more often used in its plural form and for amounts under 100 colones with multiples of ten, except for 5; e.g., 5 cañas, 10 cañas, 20 cañas, etc. This term has become less common.
Colón (Spanish pronunciation:) is a city and seaport in Panama, beside the Caribbean Sea, lying near the Atlantic entrance to the Panama Canal.It is the capital of Panama's Colón Province and has traditionally been known as Panama's second city.
The RAE responded that the word gitano is actually used with the meaning of "trickster" in Spanish, [20] and that the dictionary documents the actual use of words; inappropriate use has to be eradicated by education, removing the word from the dictionary does not change its use: "we simply photograph the landscape; we do not create it". [17]
The colon is used as a grammatical tone letter in Budu in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, in Sabaot in Kenya, and in some Grebo in Liberia. It is used for the vowels /ɛ/ and /ɔ/ in several languages of Papua New Guinea : Erima , Gizra , Go꞉bosi , Gwahatike , Kaluli , Kamula , Kasua , Kuni-Boazi and Zimakani . [ 1 ] [
Nombre de Dios (Spanish: "Name of God") is a city and corregimiento in Santa Isabel District, Colón Province, Panama, on the Atlantic coast of Panama in the Colón Province. Founded as a Spanish colony in 1510 by Diego de Nicuesa, it was one of the first European settlements on the Isthmus of Panama. As of 2010 it had a population of 1,130 ...
Jacques Colon (born 1944), Belgian Olympic sports shooter; Javier Colon (born 1978), American singer-songwriter; Johnny Colon, American salsa musician; José Antonio Colon (born 1948), Puerto Rican Olympic boxer; José María Colon (born 1947), Spanish Olympic canoer; Luis Diaz Colon (born 1952), Puerto Rican politician, mayor of Yabucoa 1993 ...
Typically, a colon is used for the eyes of a face, unless winking, in which case a semicolon is used. However, an equals sign, a number 8, a capital letter B or a capital letter X are also used to indicate normal eyes, widened eyes, those with glasses or those with crinkled eyes, respectively.