Colon (punctuation)
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The colon is a punctuation merk consistin o twa equally sized dots centred on the same vertical line. A colon is uised tae expleen or stairt an enumeration. A colon is an aa uised wi ratios, teetles an subteetles o beuks, ceety an publisher in bibliographies, oors an minutes, an formal letters.[1]
In Unicode, it is encodit at U+003A : Colon (HTML :).
References
[eedit | eedit soorce]- ↑ "Semicolon & Colon Rules". Georgia College Writing Center. Retrieved 17 Apryle 2013.[deid airtin]