Tom Hodgkinson

The beauty of the ampersand and other keyboard symbols

Claire Cock-Starkey’s guide to glyphs and punctuation marks is, by turns, scholarly, poetic, philosophical and funny

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  • Hyphens and Hashtags: The Stories Behind the Symbols on our Keyboards

    Claire Cock-Starkey

    Bodleian Library, pp. 184, £12

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