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From: ajs@hpfcdt.HP.COM (Alan Silverstein)
Newsgroups: misc.misc
Subject: Re: Wrong newsgroup was: Literacy
Message-ID: <4350001@hpfcdt.HP.COM>
Date: 12 Mar 87 23:52:52 GMT
References: <1537@whuts.UUCP>
Organization: HP Fort Collins, CO
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> The notion that there is a particular correct name for a punctuation
> mark is both absurd and pedantic.
Yeah, but fun, too. Time I reposted this...
TERMINAL MUMPS: Popular and Bizarre Character Names
Summarized from USENET articles, circa 1983.
Single characters listed in ASCII order, followed by multiples.
For each character, "official" names appear first, thence others
in order of popularity (more or less).
! exclamation point, exclamation, bang, factorial, excl, ball-bat,
smash, shriek, cuss, wow, hey
!? interrobang (as one overlapped character)
" quotation mark, double quote, quote, dirk, literal mark,
rabbit ears
# pound sign, number sign, sharp, crunch, mesh, hex, hash,
flash, grid, pig-pen, tictactoe, scratchmark, octothorp (from
Bell System)
$ dollar sign, currency symbol, buck, cash, string (from BASIC),
escape (from TOPS-10), ding, big-money
% percent sign, percent, mod, double-oh-seven
& ampersand, amper, and, address (from C), andpersand
' apostrophe, single quote, quote, prime, tick, irk, pop, spark
() open/close parenthesis, left/right parenthesis, paren/thesis,
parenthisey, unparenthisey, open/close round bracket, ears,
so/already, wax/wane
* asterisk, star, splat, wildcard, gear, dingle
+ plus sign, plus, add, cross, intersection
, comma, tail
- hyphen, dash, minus sign, worm
. period, dot, decimal point, radix point, point, full stop, spot
/ virgule, slash, stroke, slant, diagonal, solidus, over, slat
: colon, two-spot
; semicolon, semi, hybrid
<> angle brackets, left/right angle, less/greater than, read
from / write to, from/into, from/toward, in/out, comesfrom/
gozinta (all from UNIX), funnel, brokets, crunch/zap, suck/blow
= equal sign, equals, quadrathorp, gets, half-mesh
? question mark, whatmark, what, wildchar, ques, huh, quark
@ at sign, at, each, vortex, whorl, whirlpool, cyclone, snail,
ape, cat
V vee, book
[] square brackets, left/right bracket, bracket/unbracket, bra/ket,
square/unsquare, U turns
\ reversed virgule, backslash, bash, backslant, backwhack, backslat,
escape (from UNIX)
^ circumflex, caret, uparrow, hat, chevron, sharkfin, to ("to
the power of"), fang
_ underscore, underline, underbar, under, score, backarrow, flatworm
` grave accent, grave, backquote, left quote, open quote, backprime,
unapostrophe, backspark, birk, blugle, back tick, push
{} open/close brace, left/right brace, brace/unbrace, curly bracket,
curly/uncurly, leftit/rytit, embrace/bracelet
| vertical bar, bar, or, v-bar, spike, pipe, gozinta, thru,
pipesinta (last four from UNIX)
~ tilde, swung dash, squiggle, approx, wiggle, twiddle, enyay
() bowlegs
/* slashterisk
*/ asterslash
>> cat-astrophe
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