Re: Naes of ASCII Symbols

Premise Checker wrote in message <696gls$p0...@clarknet.clark.net>...
>And why not go through the whole keyboard?
>! exclamation point

Also called a "bang". (Especially in typesetting, I think.  There is a
character called an "interbang" which is an ! superimposed over a ?, useful
for saying things like WHAT?! <g, but I'm serious>)  Also a "not" sign.

>@

"at" sign, I believe. I'm sure there's something formal and fancy for it,
though.

># octothorp

..plus the aforementioned hash, pound, number sign, etc...

>$ dollar sign, anything else?
>% percent sign
>^ caret, roof

Also called a "hat".

>& ampersand

AKA just "and" sign..

>* asterisk
>( left parenthesis
>) right parenthesis
>- en dash

or "hyphen" (not to be confused with -- or em dash, 0151 in most character
sets)

>_ underscore

AKA "underline" (but I say "underscore")

>+ plus sign

My sister's annoying habit (and, I assume from what she says, of the rest of
her school's class) is to just call this "add"... and they read, for
example, 5 + 5 as "five add five" which is just silly.  But that's pretty
much parenthetical.

>= equals sign
>|

Called a "pipe".  Strictly a computer symbol, along with \... Also called
"Or".

>\ back slash
>{ left brace
>} right brace
>[ left bracket
>] right bracket
>; semicolon
>: colon
>' scare quote, apostrophe

also "feet"

>" quotation mark

also "inches"

>, comma
>< left angel bracket
>> right angel bracket


YM "angle" bracket, right? AKA less-than sign and greater-than sign,
respectively.

>. period

Mysteriously, it's also called a "fullstop".

>/ slash. Other name

Other name (according to dictionary) "virgule" "solidus" "shilling".

>? question mark

"interrogation mark" (or "interrogation point".)  Or so I learned in school,
and what the dictionary expects me to believe. :)

>~ tilde
>` grave accent (hmm, ProComm won't let me type it in)

--added it for you :)

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