Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83 (MC840302); site boring.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!whuxlm!harpo!decvax!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!mcvax!boring!ken From: ken@boring.UUCP Newsgroups: net.nlang Subject: Re: question about names for symbols Message-ID: <6475@boring.UUCP> Date: Mon, 24-Jun-85 18:28:04 EDT Article-I.D.: boring.6475 Posted: Mon Jun 24 18:28:04 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 29-Jun-85 01:45:59 EDT References: <2041@iddic.UUCP> <2086@sdcrdcf.UUCP> Reply-To: ken@boring.UUCP (Ken Yap) Followup-To: net.nlang Distribution: net Organization: CWI, Amsterdam Lines: 13 Apparently-To: rnews@mcvax.LOCAL 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 -- UUCP: ..!{seismo,okstate,garfield,decvax,philabs}!mcvax!ken Voice: Ken! Mail: Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica, Kruislaan 413, 1098 SJ, Amsterdam.