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Question 1: The first use of the hyphen—and its origination—is often credited to ________ of Mainz, Germany circa 1455 with the publication of his 42-line Bible.
Movable typeIncunablePrinting pressJohannes Gutenberg

Question 2: In most parts of ________ the soft hyphen is at position 0xAD, and since the first 256 positions in Unicode are taken from ISO-8859-1, it has a Unicode codepoint of U+00AD.
ISO/IEC 646ISO/IEC 8859ISO/IEC 8859-16ISO/IEC 6937

Question 3: A parameter by itself that is only a single hyphen without any letters usually means that a program is supposed to handle data coming from the ________ or send data to the standard output.
Standard streamsALGOL 68C (programming language)C Sharp (programming language)

Question 4: [6] Some authorities differ, and recommend the hyphen when the compound adjective follows the verb ________ or any of its inflections.
Copula (linguistics)DemonstrativeAdverbPreposition and postposition

Question 5: (In contrast, "a more-important reason" is not correct, since it is semantically indistinct from the (correct) "a more important reason".) A ________ example is the following: more-beautiful scenery as distinct from more beautiful scenery.
AdverbPreposition and postpositionMass nounCount noun

Question 6: The details of doing this properly are complex and language-dependent and can interact with other orthographic and ________ practices.
Book designTypesettingComputer fontTypeface

Question 7: However, with symbols for ________ units—as opposed to the names of these units—both the International Bureau of Weights and Measures and the U.S.
Metric systemInternational System of UnitsSystems of measurementConversion of units

Question 8: Some married couples compose a new surname (sometimes referred to as a ________) for their new family by combining their two surnames with a hyphen.
Double-barrelled nameFamily namePolandMarried and maiden names

Question 9: As the hyphen ought not to be confused with this, a double-slash was used, this resembling an ________ tilted like a slash.
Plus and minus signsTildeEquals signC (programming language)

Question 10: In medieval times and the early days of printing, the predecessor of the ________ was a slash.
CommaApostropheAt signSemicolon
















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