Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!seismo!hao!csu-cs!silver From: silver@csu-cs.UUCP Newsgroups: net.misc Subject: Terminal Mumps -- update of complete list Message-ID: <2310@csu-cs.UUCP> Date: Mon, 4-Jul-83 15:51:48 EDT Article-I.D.: csu-cs.2310 Posted: Mon Jul 4 15:51:48 1983 Date-Received: Wed, 6-Jul-83 15:50:05 EDT Lines: 50 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