The Writer's Desk Book / Being a Reference Volume upon Questions of Punctuation, Capitalization, Spelling, Division of Words, Indention, Spacing, Italics, Abbreviations, Accents, Numerals, Faulty Diction, Letter Writing, Postal Regulations, Etc.

Chapter 3: PUNCTUATION MARKS, ACCENTS, ETC.

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This reference guides writers, editors, and printers through practical rules and examples for punctuation (comma, semicolon, colon, period, dash, quotation marks, parentheses, apostrophe), capitalization, spelling and variant forms, compound words, word division, indention and paragraphing, spacing and italics, abbreviations, numerals, faulty diction, letter writing, and postal regulations. Each section offers definitions, usage guidelines, and illustrative examples, with appendices on standard time, weights and measures, and foreign coin values, designed as a compact desk companion for drafting, editing, and preparing printed correspondence.

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THE WRITER’S DESK BOOK

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PUNCTUATION MARKS, ACCENTS, ETC.

,	Comma	¨	Dieresis
;	Semicolon	ç	Cedilla
:	Colon		Caret
.	Period	“ ”	Quotation-marks
?	Interrogation	{ }	Brace
!	Exclamation	* * *	Ellipsis
( )	Parentheses	. . .	Ellipsis, leaders
[ ]	Brackets	*	Asterisk
’	Apostrophe	†	Dagger
-	Hyphen	‡	Double dagger
´	Acute accent	§	Section
`	Grave accent	‖	Parallels
^	Circumflex accent	¶	Paragraph
~	Circumflex or tilde		Index
	Long or macron	* * *	Asterisks
	Short or breve

The Section-mark is derived from the first letters of the words signum sectionis, meaning sign of the section, the old-fashioned ∫ being used. The paragraph mark ¶ is the roman letter P reversed, with black and white interchanged.