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typeracer

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Racer Hex (galaxyyyy)
Race Number 24510
Date Mon, 2 Nov 2020 0:55:34
Speed 71 WPM Try to beat?
Accuracy 96.3%
Rank 2nd place (out of 4)
Opponents frankydanky (3rd place)

Text typed:

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.
Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation (book) by Lynne Truss (see stats)

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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.
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Mistakes:
  1. print
  2. straightforward
  3. incidentally.
  4. orientation,
  5. curve
  6. cup
  7. prose,
  8. which
  9. seems
  10. how
  11. always
  12. with
  13. 16th
  14. century
  15. Denham
  16. idea
  17. indicating
  18. question
  19. but