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From: subbarao@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Kartik Subbarao)
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Subject: Re: Name that character!
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Date: 28 May 91 17:26:06 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):

Here's what I've heard:

>	!	shriek
	bang

>	@	at
>	#	hash
	pound -- DEFINITELY pound :-)

>	$	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)
Unsure about those. I generally hear them as "left-paren", "right paren"

>	_	under, underscore
>	-	dash,minus (or `option', apparently :-)
>	~	twiddle, twaddle, tilde
>	|	bar (or `pipe' :-)
>	?	? - any ideas? 
>	/	slash, stroke
>	\	backslash

>	<	lessthan, openangle
>	>	morethan, closeangle
	from, to (as in redirection)
	Tho I never say "to", usually just "greater"

>	[	opensquare
>	]	closesquare
>	{	opencurly, openbrace
>	}	closecurly, closebrace

Left squiggly bracket, Right Squiggly bracket :-)

>	.	dot, stop, point, period

>	`	openquote
>	'	closequote

Hmm. These sound uncommon, but are probably reasonable.


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