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From: tmkk@uiuc.edu (K. Khan)
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Subject: Re: Name that character!
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Date: 28 May 91 18:12:04 GMT
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In article <10599@castle.ed.ac.uk> eanv20@castle.ed.ac.uk (John Woods) writes:
>
>	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

bang

>	@	at

fetch (for you Forth programmers :)

>	#	hash

pound

>	$	dollar (but strangely `string' to some people :-)

most BASIC programmers, I'll wager!

>	^	hat

caret

>	&	and (`ampersand' appears to be getting rarer)
>	*	splat, star
>	(	open (this seems a little unsatisfactory!)
>	)	close (ditto)
>	_	under, underscore
>	-	dash,minus (or `option', apparently :-)

hyphen?

>	~	twiddle, twaddle, tilde
>	|	bar (or `pipe' :-)
>   ?   ? - any ideas?

question mark? ;-)