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@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ Command-line Data Processor for EDN, YAML, JSON, XML and other data formats.
 
 The joy of Clojure's threading macros, but on the command line!
 
-May or may not have invented the Hash-Pipe (`#|`) operator 🍁 (citation needed)
+May or may not have invented the Hash-Pipe `#|` operator 🍁 (citation needed)
 
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