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From: pete@minster.york.ac.uk
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: Name that character!
Message-ID: <675549218.15328@minster.york.ac.uk>
Date: 29 May 91 20:33:38 GMT
Article-I.D.: minster.675549218.15328
References: <10599@castle.ed.ac.uk> <1991May28.130224.23110@spider.co.uk> <1991May29.165249.6222@ohm.york.ac.uk>
Reply-To: pete@SoftEng.UUCP (Pete Fenelon)
Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of York, England
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In article <1991May29.165249.6222@ohm.york.ac.uk> nigelm@ohm.york.ac.uk (Nigel Metheringham) writes:
>In <1991May28.130224.23110@spider.co.uk> scottm@spiderman.spider.co.uk (Scott Mackie) writes:
>
>>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):
>>|> 
>>|>     !       shriek
>
>>I've always called this "pling" - can't remember where I first found it called
>>this tho' ;-(
>
>I started my computing life on an Acorn Atom, and the manuals for
>that referred to "pling" - it was actually used as a word oriented
>peek/poke instruction in the Atom BASIC - in a very similar way to
>how * is used in C, but always affecting 4 bytes.
>
>        Nigel.
>
>
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I believe that category theorists and other assorted formalists (CSP hackers
etc) tend to refer to it as ``shriek''. Oldtime UUCP freaks use ``bang'' and
the rest of us in the UK seem to favour ``pling''.

	Pete Fenelon
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