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From: zweig@parc.xerox.com (Jonathan M. Zweig)
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Subject: Re: Name that character!
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Date: 30 May 91 20:26:33 GMT
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I seem to have picked up the habit of calling the ' character "tick" from my
Ada days.  It's easy to say, but almost universally not understood outside the
Ada hacker community.

-Johnny Tick