silver@csu-cs.UUCP (06/20/83)
I collected all the articles I've seen for the last six months and
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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
!? interabang (as one overlapped character)
" double quote, quote, dirk, literal mark, rabbit ears
# pound sign, number sign, sharp, crunch, mesh, hex, hash, grid,
pig-pen, tictactoe, scratchmark, octothorp (from Bell System)
$ dollar sign, currency symbol, buck, string (from BASIC),
escape (from TOPS-10)
% 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,
ears, so/already
* asterisk, star, splat, wildcard, gear, dingle
+ plus sign, plus, cross
, comma
- hyphen, dash, minus sign
. period, dot, decimal point, radix point, point
/ virgule, slash, stroke, slant, diagonal
: colon
; semicolon, semi
<> angle brackets, left/right angle, less/greater than, read
from / write to (from UNIX), brokets, crunch/zap, suck/blow
= equal sign, equals, gets
? question mark, whatmark, wildchar, ques
@ at sign, at, each, vortex, whorl, cyclone
[] square brackets, left/right bracket, bra/ket
\ reversed virgule, backslash, backslant, escape (from UNIX)
^ circumflex, carat, uparrow, hat
_ underscore, underline, underbar, under, score, backarrow
` grave accent, grave, backquote, backprime, birk, blugle,
back tick, push
{} brace, curly bracket, curly, leftit/rytit
| vertical bar, or, v-bar, pipe, gozinta (last two from UNIX)
~ tilde, swung dash, squiggle, wiggle, twiddle, enyay
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