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From: ken@boring.UUCP
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Subject: Re: question about names for symbols
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Date: Mon, 24-Jun-85 18:28:04 EDT
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In article <2086@sdcrdcf.UUCP> barryg@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Lee Gold) writes:
>  \ is "backwhack."

In Australia we used to call this "slosh". I thought the symmetry
slash-slosh was pleasing and less of a mouthful than "backquote". Does
anybody else do this?

So what do we call the ` character? Quate? :-)

	Ken
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