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Racer Petar (pecagg)
Race Number 28
Date Wed, 11 Nov 2020 22:00:02
Speed 95 WPM Try to beat?
Accuracy 97.6%
Rank 1st place (out of 5)
Opponents direwolf05 (2nd place) haraldgb (3rd place)

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Deciding which way round to print the question mark wasn't as straightforward as you might think, incidentally. In its traditional orientation, with the curve to the right, it appears to cup an ear towards the preceding prose, which seems natural enough, though perhaps only because that's how we are used to seeing it. But people have always played around with it. In the 16th century the printer Henry Denham had the sophisticated idea of reversing the mark when indicating a rhetorical question (to differentiate it from a direct question), but it didn't catch on.
— (book) by Lynne Truss (see stats)

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