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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 10 Jan 1998.
Re: Naes of ASCII Symbols

Re: Naes of ASCII Symbols

In article <696gls$p0...@clarknet.clark.net>, che...@clark.net (Premise 
Checker) wrote:
>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 "@"?

It's an at sign or a commercial at sign.

>- en dash

No, it's a hyphen. The keyboard does not have an en-dash or em-dash key.

-- 

Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
                      http://www.concentric.net/%7eBrownsta/
"If you have nothing to say, say nothing." --Yes, Prime Minister

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From: bro...@concentric.net (Stan Brown)
Subject: Re: Naes of ASCII Symbols
Date: 1998/01/10
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Organization: Oak Road Systems
Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art,alt.usage.english,alt.english.usage
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