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From: kanner@tymix.UUCP (Herb Kanner)
Newsgroups: net.nlang
Subject: Re: question about names for symbols
Message-ID: <456@tymix.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 3-Jul-85 20:40:33 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jul  3 20:40:33 1985
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References: <2041@iddic.UUCP> <7333@watdaisy.UUCP>
Reply-To: kanner@tymix.UUCP (Herb Kanner)
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In article <7333@watdaisy.UUCP> gjerawlins@watdaisy.UUCP (Gregory J.E. Rawlins) writes:
>In article <2041@iddic.UUCP> rick@iddic.UUCP (Rick Coates) writes:
>>What names are in use for the non-alpha characters in the ASCII code?
>	My personal names are:
>	! - "bang"/"exclam"/"exclamation point"
>	~ - "tilde"/"twiddle"
>	` - "back quote"
>	' - "single quote"
>	" - "double quote"
>	\ - "back slash"
>	| - "pipe"
>	# - "hash"/"number"/"pound"
>	@ - "at"
> 	^ - "up arrow"/"caret"/"pointer"
>	& - "and"/"ampersand"
>	* - "star"/"asterisk"/"times"
>	< - "less than"/"pointy brackets"
>	{ - "curly brackets"/"braces"
>	[ - "hard brackets"
>	( - "brackets"
>-- 
>Gregory J.E. Rawlins, Department of Computer Science, U. Waterloo
>{allegra|clyde|linus|inhp4|decvax}!watmath!watdaisy!gjerawlins

In a novel centered around tournament chess that I read some years ago,
the symbol "!", as used to indicate an especially good move, was described
as "shriek mark".
-- 
Herb Kanner
Tymnet, Inc.
...!hplabs!oliveb!tymix!kanner