Punctuation Trivia - Statistics

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Answer Stats

Hint	Answer	% Correct
Three dots for omission or pause	...	94%
Marks copyright ownership	©	94%
Old shorthand for “and”	&	93%
Found in every email address	@	92%
Common in hashtags	#	91%
Combines question and exclamation marks	‽	90%
Used in fractions and URLs	/	87%
Joins parts of compound words	-	87%
Means “approximately”	~	86%
Shows possession or contractions	'	85%
Used in lists when items already have commas	;	81%
Used in ratios like 3 to 2	:	80%
Indicates a paragraph break	¶	80%
Start of exclamatory sentence in Spanish	¡	78%
Quotation mark style in French	«	64%
Footnote symbol after an asterisk	†	61%
Originally called “interrogation point”	?	59%
Used in file paths on Windows	\	58%
Proposed mark for sarcasm	⸮	44%
Click sound in some African languages	!	27%

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