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From: eanv20@castle.ed.ac.uk (John Woods)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Name that character!
Message-ID: <10599@castle.ed.ac.uk>
Date: 28 May 91 11:53:41 GMT
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	There seems to be approaching agreement on a number of one or
two syllable convenience names for characters. I wonder if there is a
definitive list - if not, perhaps we could go about creating one. So
far I've got (from listening to the dictations going on around me):

	!	shriek
	@	at
	#	hash
	$	dollar (but strangely `string' to some people :-)
	^	hat
	&	and (`ampersand' appears to be getting rarer)
	*	splat, star
	(	open (this seems a little unsatisfactory!)
	)	close (ditto)
	_	under, underscore
	-	dash,minus (or `option', apparently :-)
	~	twiddle, twaddle, tilde
	|	bar (or `pipe' :-)
	?	? - any ideas? 
	/	slash, stroke
	\	backslash
	<	lessthan, openangle
	>	morethan, closeangle
	[	opensquare
	]	closesquare
	{	opencurly, openbrace
	}	closecurly, closebrace
	.	dot, stop, point, period
	`	openquote
	'	closequote

	Only the comma, colon, semicolon, plus, equals and percent seem
to be dictated `as is'. Anyone care to comment?

					...John Woods
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