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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 9 Jan 1998.
Re: Naes of ASCII Symbols

Re: Naes of ASCII Symbols

I like the slang better

> ! exclamation point   Wow, Bang.
> @                     At, Spiral
> # octothorp           hash, pound, gridlet
> $ dollar sign, anything else?
> % percent sign        double-oh-seven
> ^ caret, roof         hat
> & ampersand           AND
> * asterisk            splat, star, rienhold
> ( left parenthesis    open
> ) right parenthesis   close
> - en dash
> _ underscore          floor, bimmin
> + plus sign
> = equals sign
> |                     bar
> \ back slash          back
> { left brace          open curly
> } right brace         close curly
> [ left bracket        open square
> ] right bracket       close square
> ; semicolon           hybrid
> : colon                       two-spot
> ' scare quote, apostrophe     single
> " quotation mark              double
> , comma                       twitch
> < left angel bracket          less than, open angle
> > right angel bracket         more than, close angle
> . period                      dot, point
> / slash. Other name
> ? question mark               huh?
> ~ tilde                       squiggle, twiddle

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From: Larry Phillips <lar...@bc.rogers.wave.ca>
Subject: Re: Naes of ASCII Symbols
Date: 1998/01/09
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