Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: notesfiles Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!ihnp4!zehntel!hplabs!hp-pcd!hpfcla!ajs From: ajs@hpfcla.UUCP (ajs) Newsgroups: net.unix Subject: Re: Orphaned Response Message-ID: <43800022@hpfcla.UUCP> Date: Sun, 13-Jan-85 16:04:00 EST Article-I.D.: hpfcla.43800022 Posted: Sun Jan 13 16:04:00 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 21-Jan-85 03:33:45 EST References: <1200001@uoregon.UUCP> Organization: Hewlett-Packard - Fort Collins, CO Lines: 64 Nf-ID: #R:uoregon:1200001:hpfcla:43800022:37777777600:2855 Nf-From: hpfcla!ajs Jan 14 13:04:00 1985 > When speaking of the symbol '!' in different contexts what do people > say? Examples... Since great minds think alike, you know this one has come up before. Here is a (reposting) of "Terminal Mumps". 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) " 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 /* slashterisk */ asterslash >> cat-astrophe