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From: cjdb@sphinx.UChicago.UUCP (Charles Blair)
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Subject: Re: Literacy was: smail pronounciation
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Date: Fri, 6-Mar-87 00:04:09 EST
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>> []          brackets (not brace)
>
>Try picking up a Websters Dictionary and Style guide.
>[]	square braces

I've never heard this as anything but "square brackets" (though
"brackets" is sufficient according to some sources). To me braces are
these: { }. These -- < > -- I've seen as "angle brackets," though I
would find "pointed brackets" unambiguous. (I had to look these up
once to help a German-born professor keep his "Klammern" straight in
English.) 

>
>> *           asterisk (not star)
>*	asterik

"Asterisk," to be sure. But since "asterisk" is from a word meaning
"little star," I'd have no objection if "star" started taking over.

For what it's worth.-- 
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