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It’s Good to Know: The Grawlix

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Writers and cartoonists commonly use a series of symbols to indicate bad language. For example: $%#@&. Well, what do you know? That string of characters has a name: grawlix. Beetle Bailey cartoonist Mort Walker coined the word in the 1960s.

(Source: Typography.com)

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