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From: dillon@CORY.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Yea, but can an Amiga Shell do this....
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Date: 16 Aug 88 20:44:31 GMT
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:In article <215@mango.athertn.Atherton.COM> ericb@mango.UUCP (Eric Black) writes:
:>	'#' is "pound" [Stanford types sometimes use "hash", I'm an MIT type]
:
:	We've always called it "sharp;" I suspect that "pound" is a by-product
:	of the fact that the British pound sign is often on the same key

	I always say HASH and I'm from Berkeley.... though sometimes the Cops
	get a bit confused anyway.

:>	'~' is "squiggle" [some folks don't know whether "tilde" is '~' or '^']
:
:	Doesn't anyone else in the world call it a "twiddle?"

	I used to say twiddle but it sounds like am reciting a fairy tale
	sometimes. 

						-Matt