If your friend says she’s coming to town Sunday week, exactly when should you expect to see her? What do you call those typographical symbols cartoonists use in place of profanity? Plus grass widows, the linguistic phenomenon called creaky...
Lindsay from San Diego asked about a word for the typographical symbols that stand in for profanity, like @#$%!^*)!&!. The term is grawlix. Cartoonist Mort Walker included it in his humorous book Lexicon of Comicana, where he catalogued visual...