Re: Naes of ASCII Symbols
From S. W. Davison <nos...@erols.com>
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· 10 Jan 1998 00:00 · View full thread
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Premise Checker <che...@clark.net> wrote in article <696gls$p0...@clarknet.clark.net>... > I'm cross-posting this to alt.usage.english (or was it > alt.english.usage?), since there was a thread on this a couple of years > ago. Also, what's the name of "@"? > @ (Yeah, what is this thing? At work we all say "at-sign.") > # octothorp (I'm delighted to know the name, but eight whats?) > & ampersand (Has anyone else heard that this was from a slovenly-speaking double-reader's pronunciation of "and, per se, and"?) > - en dash (really -- a hyphen, no?) > | (At work we call this a pipe) > / slash. Other name (Solidus) (How about > and <?)
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,d8ba9ee032dffd44 X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public X-Google-Thread: 102ffd,2e58d5f13e65ed35 X-Google-Attributes: gid102ffd,public X-Google-Thread: 113841,2e58d5f13e65ed35 X-Google-Attributes: gid113841,public From: "S. W. Davison" <nos...@erols.com> Subject: Re: Naes of ASCII Symbols Date: 1998/01/10 Message-ID: <01bd1d7c$2f3bcb80$6335accf@stowe-1>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 314533812 References: <34A...@ares.informatik.uni-ulm.de> <01bd187e$68352060$LocalHost@atkins> <696gls$p0...@clarknet.clark.net> X-Complaints-To: abu...@erols.com X-Trace: winter.news.erols.com 884404829 25551 207.172.53.99 (10 Jan 1998 04:00:29 GMT) Organization: Erol's Internet Services Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art,alt.usage.english,alt.english.usage
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