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From: Andreas Freise <adf@mpq.mpg.de>
Subject: Re: Naes of ASCII Symbols
Date: 1998/01/10
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I don't know for sure but I guess this recently posted
table has not been crossposted yet.

William Parrette (wap@shell.one.net) posted to alt.ascii-art:

> Hi all,
> 
>         This  topic  has  been a curiosity to me for a very long time.
>      I've started compiling a list but  it  is  currently  incomplete.
>      Here's what I have so far:

I added most of the slang names mentioned in this thread to
his table. The result follows :

     Symbol Proper Name    Usually Called
     ------ -------------- -------------------------------------------
        !                  exclamation mark, ball bat, bang, wow
        "                  double quotation mark, double tick, 
                           double quote, double, inches
        #    octothorp     number sign, pound sign, sharp symbol,
                           hash mark, number, pound, hash, gridlet,
                           sharp
        $                  dollar sign, dollar
        %                  percent sign, percent, double-oh-seven
        &    ampersand     and sign, and
        '    acute accent  single quote, single, tick, scare quote, 
                           apostrophe, feet
        (    parenthesis   left parenthesis, left bracket, open
        )    parenthesis   right parenthesis, right bracket, close
        *    asterisk      star, splat, rienhold
        +                  plus sign, plus
        ,    comma         comma, twitch
        -    hyphen        hyphen, dash, minus sign, minus, worm
        .    period        period, dot, fullstop, point
        /    virgule       slash, solidus, shilling
        :    colon         colon, snake bite, two-spot
        ;    semicolon     semicolon, hybrid
        <                  less than sign, left angle bracket, 
                           left angle, angle
        =                  equal sign, equals
        >                  greater than sign, right angle bracket,
                           right angle
        ?    question mark question mark, interrogation mark, huh?,
                           ques
        @                  at sign, at, spiral
        [                  left square bracket, open square
        \                  back slash, back
        ]                  right square bracket, close square
        ^    circumflex    carat, hat, roof, up arrow
        _    underscore    underbar, underline, floor, bimmin, flatworm
        `    grave accent  back quote, back tick, reverse quote
        {                  left curly bracket, left brace, open curly
        |                  vertical bar, bar, pipe, or sign
        }                  right curly bracket, right brace, close curly
        ~    tilde         tilde, squiggly, squiggle, twiddle


I wonder if there really are 'proper names' for all symbols.
:)
Andreas
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