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  2. Wikipedia : Manual of Style/Lists

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    Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Disambiguation pages – disambiguation pages are lists of homographs—a word or a group of words that share the same written form but have different meanings—with their own page rules and layouts; Wikipedia:Stand-alone lists – guideline page on content and style guidelines and naming conventions

  3. Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2008 February 12 ...

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    In such a case, I think, I'd spell out Street and alphabetize them in the order I've mentioned them in the preceding sentence. Most indexes are constructed with strict letter-by-letter alphabetization these days, but some older practices, like alphabetizing St. (="Saint") as if it were spelled out and alphabetizing names beginning with Mac , Mc ...

  4. List of proofreader's marks - Wikipedia

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    Example of Use Dele: Delete: Pilcrow (Unicode U+00B6) ¶ Begin new paragraph: Pilcrow (Unicode U+00B6) ¶ no: Remove paragraph break: Caret [a] (Unicode U+2038, 2041, 2380) ‸ or ⁁ or ⎀ Insert # Insert space: Close up (Unicode U+2050) ⁐ Tie words together, eliminating a space: I was reading the news⁐paper this morning. ] [Center text ...

  5. Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Lead section - Wikipedia

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    The lead section may contain optional elements presented in the following order: short description, disambiguation links (dablinks/hatnotes), maintenance tags, infoboxes, special character warning box, images, navigational boxes (navigational templates), introductory text, and table of contents, moving to the heading of the first section.

  6. Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Words to watch - Wikipedia

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    Do not use similar or related words in a way that blurs meaning or is incorrect or distorting. For example, the adjective Arab refers to people and things of ethnic Arab origin. The term Arabic generally refers to the Arabic language or writing system, and related concepts. Arabian relates to the Arabian Peninsula or historical Arabia.

  7. Lipogram - Wikipedia

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    For example, Poe's poem The Raven contains no Z, but there is no evidence that this was intentional. A pangrammatic lipogram is a text that uses every letter of the alphabet except one. For example, "The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog" omits the letter S , which the usual pangram includes by using the word jumps .

  8. Alphabetical order - Wikipedia

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    A standard example is the Unicode Collation Algorithm, which can be used to put strings containing any Unicode symbols into (an extension of) alphabetical order. [14] It can be made to conform to most of the language-specific conventions described above by tailoring its default collation table.

  9. Letter (alphabet) - Wikipedia

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    The American manual alphabet, an example of letters in fingerspelling. Before alphabets, phonograms, graphic symbols of sounds, were used.There were three kinds of phonograms: verbal, pictures for entire words, syllabic, which stood for articulations of words, and alphabetic, which represented signs or letters.