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Hi Malone,

I don't know if I mentioned it 🤣 but it was birthday last week so am a week behind. That said, I did read the preamble and made sure to get a new set of highlighters in the Pound shop while at Watney Martket:-)

Brendan, belated happy birthday wishes from me! I didn't see any mention of the big event, but I did wonder why the flags were out, all over the country!

Jono, I recall having seen it too, along with a few other punctuation marks or symbols.

You mean you missed all the classic Prospect of Whitby stories!

But seriously, thank you very much Malone:-)

I've seen that kind of ELLIPSIS clue, and fairly recently.
COLON and ASTERISK (ISTR a couple of recent * ones) appear relatively often.

HASHTAG is a relative newcomer in the "typographical symbol clue" category.

Vulcan in June this year, pushing the genre perhaps.

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