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From: scum@walney.com (Steven C. Monroe)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: Name that character!
Message-ID: <1991May28.191351.3621@walney.com>
Date: 28 May 91 19:13:51 GMT
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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

>	^	hat
		caret

>	(	open (this seems a little unsatisfactory!)
>	)	close (ditto)
		parens

>	[	opensquare
>	]	closesquare
		brackets

>	{	opencurly, openbrace
>	}	closecurly, closebrace
		braces

>	`	openquote
		grave accent

>	'	closequote
		single quote

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

Now, what's the point? ;-)
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