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Subject: Terminal Mumps -- the ultimate (?) list
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Date: Sun, 19-Jun-83 21:12:49 EDT
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Posted: Sun Jun 19 21:12:49 1983
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I  collected  all the  articles  I've seen for the last six  months  and
created this document,  which is as complete and correct as I could make
it.  If you have  additions,  please  MAIL  them to me and, if  interest
warrants, I'll post an update when things settle down again.

Alan Silverstein, Hewlett-Packard Fort Collins Systems Division, Colorado
ucbvax!hplabs!hpfcld!ajs, 303-226-3800 x3053, N 40 31'31" W 105 00'43"

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	TERMINAL MUMPS:  Popular and Bizarre Character Names


	Summarized from USENET articles.
	Characters listed in ASCII order.
	For each character, "official" names appear first, thence others in
	order of popularity (more or less).


	!   exclamation point, exclamation, bang, factorial, excl, ball-bat,
	    smash, shriek, cuss, wow
	!?  interabang (as one overlapped character)
	"   double quote, quote, dirk, literal mark, rabbit ears
	#   pound sign, number sign, sharp, crunch, mesh, hex, hash, grid,
	    pig-pen, tictactoe, scratchmark, octothorp (from Bell System)
	$   dollar sign, currency symbol, buck, string (from BASIC),
	    escape (from TOPS-10)
	%   percent sign, percent, mod
	&   ampersand, amper, and, address (from C)
	'   apostrophe, single quote, quote, prime, tick, irk, pop
	()  open/close parenthesis, left/right parenthesis, paren/thesis,
	    ears, so/already
	*   asterisk, star, splat, wildcard, gear, dingle
	+   plus sign, plus, cross
	,   comma
	-   hyphen, dash, minus sign
	.   period, dot, decimal point, radix point, point
	/   virgule, slash, stroke, slant, diagonal
	:   colon
	;   semicolon, semi
	<>  angle brackets, left/right angle, less/greater than, read
	    from / write to (from UNIX), brokets, crunch/zap, suck/blow
	=   equal sign, equals, gets
	?   question mark, whatmark, wildchar, ques
	@   at sign, at, each, vortex, whorl, cyclone
	[]  square brackets, left/right bracket, bra/ket
	\   reversed virgule, backslash, backslant, escape (from UNIX)
	^   circumflex, carat, uparrow, hat
	_   underscore, underline, underbar, under, score, backarrow
	`   grave accent, grave, backquote, backprime, birk, blugle,
	    back tick, push
	{}  brace, curly bracket, curly, leftit/rytit
	|   vertical bar, or, v-bar, pipe, gozinta (last two from UNIX)
	~   tilde, swung dash, squiggle, wiggle, twiddle, enyay
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