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Letter: Sign language

Published 15 December 2001

From Mark Hodson

Your correspondent on semiopathy—the tendency to read inappropriate
meanings into signs—mentions sighting the sign “Humped Zebra
Crossing—400 yards”
(24 November, p 55).

As children well know, this is simply a camel in his pyjamas.

Croydon

Issue no. 2321 published 15 December 2001

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