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From: jje@virtech.uucp (Jeremy J. Epstein)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: pronunciation of *
Summary: More strange names for strange characters
Message-ID: <1989Dec1.171244.16486@virtech.uucp>
Date: 1 Dec 89 17:12:44 GMT
References: <4758@cbnewsc.ATT.COM> <4081@rtech.rtech.com>
Organization: Virtual Technologies Inc.
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In article <4081@rtech.rtech.com>, mikes@rtech.UUCP (Mike Schilling(This sentence no verb.)) writes:
> 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.

I worked with someone many years ago (hello Bob Knight) who insisted
that the "#" was called an octathorpe (which my edition of Webster has
never heard of).

Jeremy Epstein
TRW
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