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From: landers@zeus.mgmt.purdue.edu (Christopher Landers)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: Name that character!
Message-ID: <1991May30.144337.29285@zeus.mgmt.purdue.edu>
Date: 30 May 91 14:43:37 GMT
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My $0.02 (or tupence, if you prefer)'s worth:

>	^	hat
		|-- for math nerds
		carrot
		|-- for computer nerds
		circumflex
		|-- for linguistic nerds
		
>	(	open (this seems a little unsatisfactory!)
		openpren is a little less ambigious

>	)	close (ditto)
		closepren (ditto)

>	~	twiddle, twaddle, tilde
		|-- tilde is proper, and easy to say
		    (also popular with students of logic)

>	[	opensquare
>	]	closesquare
		|-- these things are BRACKETS

>	{	opencurly, openbrace
>	}	closecurly, closebrace
		| -- these things are BRACES, not curly brackets
		
>	`	openquote
		| -- this is an accent (grave or ague, I can't remember)

>	'	closequote
		| -- this is an appostrophe, not a quote, although
		     some programming languages use it as a quote

	"	is a quote, the nutered typerwritter/computer version
		typesetters and good word processors can generate proper
		open and close quote marks



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