Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!genrad!decvax!harpo!utah-cs!arizona!whm From: whm@arizona.UUCP Newsgroups: net.nlang Subject: Re: Re: What is the # called? - (nf) Message-ID: <2637@arizona.UUCP> Date: Sat, 18-Jun-83 01:19:42 EDT Article-I.D.: arizona.2637 Posted: Sat Jun 18 01:19:42 1983 Date-Received: Sat, 18-Jun-83 19:50:31 EDT Lines: 42 Back in December, Mark Horton posted a compiled list of names for the various characters. Here it is: --- From ...!cbosgd!mark Thu Dec 9 11:38:46 1982 Subject: Re: More Terminal Mumps Newsgroups: net.misc I am enclosing my complete list. Additions are invited. ! ball-bat, bang, shriek, excl, exclamation point, smash, cuss " Quote, double quote, dirk # sharp, pound, Number sign, tictactoe, scratchmark, Octothorp (the official Bell System name for the # on your Touch-Tone dial) $ Currency symbol, Buck, Dollar, Dollar Sign,String (from BASIC), escape (from TOPS-10 where the real escape echos as $). % Percent & Ampersand, and, amper ' Apostrophe, prime, tick, quote, single quote, irk () open/close, parenthesis, paren/thesis, ears, so/already * star, asterisk, splat, gear. (what does TPC call this on your phone?) + Plus , Comma - Dash, Hyphen, Minus . Dot, Period, Point, Decimal, Radix point. / Virgule, Slash, Stroke, Slant, Diagonal : Colon ; Semicolon, Semi <> angle brackets, brokets, less than/greater than, crunch/zap, /angle, suck/blow = Equal sign, equals ? Question mark, Ques @ At sign, At, Each, At each [] brackets, square brackets, bra/ket \ Backslash, Backslant, Reversed virgules, escape (from Unix systems where things are quoted ("escaped") with \. ^ Circumflex, Hat, Up arrow (from old ASCII) _ Underscore, underline, underbar, under, score, backarrow (old ASCII) ` Grave accent, backquote, backprime, blugle, birk {} brace, curly, curly brace, curly bracket | Vertical bar, pipe, or ~ squiggle, tilde, wiggle, Swung dash (that's what your friendly lexicographer calls it) ---