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Subject: Re: Literacy was: smail pronounciation
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Date: Mon, 2-Mar-87 13:04:51 EST
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Posted: Mon Mar  2 13:04:51 1987
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In article <1528@whuts.UUCP>, tes@whuts.UUCP writes:
> '           apostrophe (not accent)
>               (accents in foreign languages do not follow
>                the letter but are placed *over* the letter, 
>                therefore, UNIX (tm) does not use accents)
Except that this is almost never used as an apostrophe.  Try:
'	single quote
There is also the issue of:
`	accent grave
	(According to your comment above this must be something else.
	    back quote?   leading quote?   <ethnic> apostrophe? )

> []          brackets (not brace)

Try picking up a Websters Dictionary and Style guide.
[]	square braces

> *           asterisk (not star)
*	asterik

> Of course, I do not expect to reform 100K+ recalcitrant hackers who
> defiantly wear illiteracy like a rebozo.

Alternative naming is not illiteracy.
These symbols are being put to vastly different purposes than originally
intended.  Names with no mnemonic value are rapidly being surplanted.

>     -----                    Terry Sterkel
--j.a.tainter