A Vocabulary Lesson
I think I mentioned grawlixes here before, but the first two I don’t recall, even though I read the book.
The words come from a book named The Lexicon of Comicana by American cartoonist Mort Walker. He intended the book as a tongue-in-cheek look at the devices used by cartoonists. Walker invented an international set of symbols called symbolia after researching cartoons around the world. (Taken from Wikipedia)
The C with the circle around it is called the copyright symbol, by the way, but you probably knew that.
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