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raggjen | 14:58 Tue 29th Nov 2005 | Quizzes & Puzzles
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a punctuation mark to indicate omission of a word

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Is it the swung dash?
15:01 Tue 29th Nov 2005
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Caret.
15:02 Tue 29th Nov 2005
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A caret (upside down y) is more of an instruction to insert a character or word - but I guess you could think of it as marking omission.
15:04 Tue 29th Nov 2005
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According to my dictionary, it's an upside down v meaning "a mark used in proof correction to indicate an omission".
15:10 Tue 29th Nov 2005
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Probably the right answer then - but as a proofreader I would never have worded the definition like that!
15:18 Tue 29th Nov 2005
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apostrophe?
15:18 Tue 29th Nov 2005
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Swung dash is the correct answer to the Telegraph crossword clue.
15:37 Tue 29th Nov 2005
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Or rather it is the one that is required to fit the spaces!
15:40 Tue 29th Nov 2005

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