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Magic Words: Dot

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Robert Buckmaster
Mar 13, 2025
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In our continuing series on 'magic' words, this article looks at the word 'dot'.

At first glance the word dot might not seem very magical and certainly not glamorous. It has a different kind of glamour: a seriousness, of important matters; of precision; of legal issues; and of dark conspiracies in back rooms of secluded mountain villa hideouts.

A dot is a…

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