Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!jarthur!nntp-server.caltech.edu!within!magyar From: magyar@within.caltech.edu (Igen Magyar Istvani) Newsgroups: comp.misc Subject: Re: Name that character! Message-ID: <1991May28.193609.11082@nntp-server.caltech.edu> Date: 28 May 91 19:36:09 GMT References: <10599@castle.ed.ac.uk> Sender: news@nntp-server.caltech.edu Distribution: comp Organization: California Institute of Technology Lines: 18 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): > .... > ? ? - any ideas? How about 'interro'? As in, 'interrobang' - !? I seem to remember this being a typesetters' thing, but maybe I'm just manufacturing this is my mind.... Ted Turocy magyar@through.cs.caltech.edu ---------- "It _should_ have been called the Hungaro-Austrian Empire."