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Subject: Re: Re: What is the # called? - (nf)
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Date: Sat, 18-Jun-83 01:19:42 EDT
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Posted: Sat Jun 18 01:19:42 1983
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Back in December, Mark Horton posted a compiled list of names for
the various characters.  Here it is:
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    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)
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