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From: rjf@ukc.ac.uk (R.J.Faichney)
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Subject: Re: Literacy was: smail pronounciation
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Date: Thu, 5-Mar-87 08:49:30 EST
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Posted: Thu Mar  5 08:49:30 1987
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In article <1528@whuts.UUCP> tes@whuts.UUCP (STERKEL) writes:
>[..]
>symbol      term
>/           virgule (not slash)
>\           reverse virgule (not back slash)
>...         ellipses (not dots)
>'           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)
>[]          brackets (not brace)
>!           exclamation point (not bang)
>~           tilde (not twiddle, squiggly, or curly)
>{}          braces (not curly brackets)
>*           asterisk (not star)
>^           circumflex (not hat or cap)

>    -----                    Terry Sterkel

Does ^ look like a circumflex to you? It's an up-arrow to me. And I thought
Unix(tm) didn't use accents? So what do you call a circumflex? Pompous,
boring old virgules like you should get tilde.

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Robin Faichney   UUCP: ...mcvax!ukc!rjf   JANET: rjf@ukc.uk.ac