Here's a curious item we shared with our friends at SPOGG.  It's an illustration from a BBC article about a woman who hid her illiteracy for 40 years.  Notice the glaring omission of both pound signs (the crosshatch and the monetary unit).  In American maledicta, the # and $ play significant roles.  There are several periods in this illustration, but certainly the semicolon is more colorful?!  Note also that Z, X, W, and J are here inexplicably considered indecipherable.