Shady Characters: The Secret Life of Punctuation, Symbols, and Other Typographical Marks by Keith Houston

Shady Characters: The Secret Life of Punctuation, Symbols, and Other Typographical Marks

Keith Houston

338 pages first pub 2013 (editions)

nonfiction history funny informative lighthearted medium-paced
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Whether investigating the asterisk (*) and dagger (+)--which alternately illuminated and skewered heretical verses of the early Bible--or the at sign (@), which languished in obscurity for centuries until rescued by the Internet, Keith Houston dra...

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