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> 4. There are fourteen punctuation marks in English grammar.
> Can you name half of them?
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> 4. Period, comma, colon, semicolon, exclamation point,
> quotation marks, brackets, dash, hyphen, apostrophe, question
> mark, parenthesis, braces and ellipses.
>
I beg to differ: 15 there be...
What is the little dot over the letter "i" called?
The tittle (yes it looked like the "period" but was placed
differently in typesetting)
Always amused me knowing that...
(From the old days of manual typesetting wherein the "i" at first
didn't included the "dot", and when it was added, it was a second
piece of lead type; any printer who didn't use his tittles was
considered a sloppy or lazy printer.)
Not that it really means much anymore today...
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