silver@csu-cs.UUCP (07/04/83)
TERMINAL MUMPS: Popular and Bizarre Character Names
Summarized from USENET articles.
Characters listed in ASCII order.
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
!? interabang (as one overlapped character)
" 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, string (from BASIC),
escape (from TOPS-10), ding
% percent sign, percent, mod
& ampersand, amper, and, address (from C)
' apostrophe, single quote, quote, prime, tick, irk, pop
() open/close parenthesis, left/right parenthesis, paren/thesis,
open/close round bracket, ears, so/already
* asterisk, star, splat, wildcard, gear, dingle
+ plus sign, plus, add, cross
, comma
- hyphen, dash, minus sign
. period, dot, decimal point, radix point, point, full stop
/ virgule, slash, stroke, slant, diagonal, solidus, over
: colon
; semicolon, semi
<> angle brackets, left/right angle, less/greater than, read
from / write to, from/into, from/toward, in/out, comesfrom/
gozinta (all from UNIX), brokets, crunch/zap, suck/blow
= equal sign, equals, quadrathorp, gets
? question mark, whatmark, wildchar, ques, huh
@ at sign, at, each, vortex, whorl, cyclone
[] square brackets, left/right bracket, bra/ket, square/unsquare
\ reversed virgule, backslash, backslant, backwhack,
escape (from UNIX)
^ circumflex, carat, uparrow, hat
_ underscore, underline, underbar, under, score, backarrow
` grave accent, grave, backquote, left quote, open quote,
backprime, birk, blugle, back tick, push
{} open/close brace, left/right brace, brace, curly bracket,
curly/uncurly, leftit/rytit
| vertical bar, bar, or, v-bar, pipe, gozinta, thru, pipesinta
(last four from UNIX)
~ tilde, swung dash, squiggle, wiggle, twiddle, enyay