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Racer Joseph (joseph_campbell)
Race Number 376
Date Thu, 20 Aug 2020 20:06:16 +0000
Speed 74 WPM Try to beat?
Accuracy 97.0%
Rank 2nd place (out of 5)
Opponents asdfasdfff (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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Race text:
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. Deciding
  2. way
  3. round
  4. question
  5. straightforward
  6. its
  7. traditional
  8. orientation,
  9. with
  10. which
  11. natural
  12. because
  13. have
  14. always
  15. century
  16. Denham
  17. differentiate