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From: mikes@rtech.UUCP (Mike Schilling(This sentence no verb.))
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: pronunciation of *
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Date: 16 Nov 89 17:17:04 GMT
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From article <4758@cbnewsc.ATT.COM>, by sft@cbnewsc.ATT.COM (scott.thompson):
> The way to pronounce '*' is "splat".

Splat it is, Kurt Vonnegut notwithstanding.  By the way, the British folks 
I worked with at a certain mass-transit project pronounced '!' as "shriek".  
This is not without charm.
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