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From: rh@mit-eddi.UUCP (Randy Haskins)
Newsgroups: net.nlang
Subject: Re: Re: What is the # called? - (nf)
Message-ID: <301@mit-eddi.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 24-Jun-83 02:04:04 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jun 24 02:04:04 1983
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I have a few names of my own:
*  star
(  open
)  close
<  less
>  greater
-  dash
|  bar 
  (as in:  "UnderdogPOPs archDASHvillian was named Simon|Siniter)

Also, vaguely related:
In French, they teach you that final consonnants OPENspHUHCLOSE
are not OPENusuallyCLOSE pronounced unless they are of the group
C,R,F,L, or the consonnants (sic) in 'careful.'  I immediately
decided that the rule was, "Do not pronounce, except in case of
NEWLINE ."
				Safire-ly yours,
				Randy