Path: utzoo!mnetor!motto!kiwi
From: kiwi@motto.UUCP (Kiwi the Magnificent)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Name that character!
Message-ID: <206@motto.UUCP>
Date: 30 May 91 15:14:28 GMT
Lines: 27

In article 8134 of newsgroup comp.misc scottm@spider.co.uk writes:

>|> 	!	shriek
>
>I've always called this "pling" - can't remember where I first found it called
>this tho' ;-(
>
>Scott.........

You must have owned an Acorn computer or known somebody who did.
"Pling" is a strictly Acorn term for it and refers to its pointer
dereferencing usage on Acorn machines ( eg. !&0900=&FFEEFFEE ).

Along the same lines, I have always used the term "flick" to refer
to the apostrophe character: '
and of course the other one is "back-flick" : `

Cheers!

The Flightless Nocturnal Melon-sized Brown Fuzzy Bird.

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