Punctuation formerly used as a sentence or paragraph divider. It is still sometimes used in calligraphy. Spanish uses an inverted question mark at the beginning of a question and the normal question mark at the end, as well as an inverted exclamation mark at the beginning of an exclamation and the normal exclamation mark at the end. Armenian uses several punctuation marks of its own. The full stop is represented by a colon, and vice versa; the exclamation mark is represented by a diagonal similar to a tilde , while the question mark resembles an unclosed circle placed after the last
Slovene punctuation to illustrate that a word is not used as it normally is, or simply to emphasise it. Usually, in printed texts, such words are printed either "italic" or bold as opposed to using excessive quotes. Inverted commas are also used to mark proper nouns that could be mistaken for common nouns, such as at sentence beginnings. A dash (–) is a one or two part non-leaning punctuation mark (except where noted). Semantically, there is no difference between the longer and the shorter dash, – and –, although common usage prefers the shorter one in all cases except upon connection of