Questions tagged [symbols]

For questions pertaining to the meaning and/or use of symbols other than punctuation in English

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Symbol/abbreviation for "number of", "quantity of"?

In software user interface context, what symbol should I use to represent a quantity (the number of units for a given object)? At the moment I use "#" but I feel like it represents an index, not a quantity. Should I use "No.", "Nb." or else?…
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Is it grammatical correct that a exclamation links a comma?

missing 11-year-old girl "Nothing in her phone indicated she was planning to leave!," Jonie Barnett said on Facebook.
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'Said' infront of the sentence

Juan Dela Cruz is a former member of this District formerly assigned at ABCD. Said employee was transferred to ZXC. Does capital Said infront of the sentence correct? it seems to me it' wrong
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What does this handsymbol mean?

I saw this on the news yesterday. It was a video snipped from USA where democrats and republicans were arguing. One of the republicans did the following hand symbol Does it have a special meaning? I think it looks like the letter W but I don't…
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