Cygwin : Thou Shalt Not Load Xresources

$ xrdb .Xresources
/home/dragon/.Xresources:1: error: Unterminated character constant '!@#%^&*()-=+{}[]":;<>?, skipped the line
    nedit.wordDelimiters: .,\\`'!@#%^&*()-=+{}[]":;<>?
1 error in preprocessor.

*ds... why not give us stuff that works?