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From: mkaminsk@cvbnet.UUCP (Mark Kaminsky/x4495)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: pronunciation of *
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Date: 8 Nov 89 15:56:07 GMT
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From article <2385@stl.stc.co.uk>, by dsr@stl.stc.co.uk (David Riches):
> In article <2008@cs-spool.calgary.UUCP> cliff@cpsc.ucalgary.ca (Cliff Marcellus) writes:
> %  ... and what about '!' (bang) and '~' (twiddle) and '#' (pound)
> Actually it's '!' (shriek) and '~' (tilde) and '#' (hash) nad '^' (hat!!)

While working in New York I was told by one of the customer-service reps
told about a customer who kept on refering to pine-cones.  It took her
about 10 minutes to figure out that the customer was talking about the
'*" key!


Mark B. Kaminsky, Computervision Division, PRIME Computer, Inc. , Bedford, MA
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Me? I'm an anarcho-objectivist Libertarian.   (Pause)... Why are you wincing?