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18 May 2012

Interrobangs and crash blossoms

At an office meeting today, the conversation turned to crash blossoms. We've discussed these odd beasts before in our blog. (A crash blossom is an ambiguous headline that can have more than one meaning.) A recent favourite from the Calgary Herald reads 'Police looking into death by Balzac' (21 March 2012).

Later today, I read David Crystal's blog about interrobangs, which made me think that the crash blossom and the interrobang are made for each other. Police looking into death by Balzac?!

Read David Crystal's blog

Have a chuckle over some crash blossoms

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