The Pronunciation List
Maarten Litmaath
with +, and names deserving futher explanation are marked with a #. The
explanations will be given at the very end.
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-- SINGLE CHARACTERS --
SPACE, blank
! EXCLAMATION POINT, exclamation mark, exclamation, exclam, excl, clam,
bang#, shout, yell, shriek, pling, factorial, ball-bat, smash, cuss,
wow, hey, boing
" QUOTATION MARK, quote, double quote, dirk, literal mark, rabbit ears,
double ping, double glitch
# CROSSHATCH, pound, pound sign, number, number sign, sharp, octothorpe#,
hash, fence, crunch, mesh, hex, flash, grid, pig-pen, tictactoe,
scratch, scratch mark, gardengate, gate, hak, oof, rake, sink
$ DOLLAR SIGN, dollar, cash, currency symbol, buck, string#, escape#,
ding, big-money
% PERCENT SIGN, percent, mod+, shift-5, double-oh-seven, grapes
& AMPERSAND, and, amper, address+, shift-7, andpersand, snowman,
bitand+, donald duck#, daemon
' APOSTROPHE, single quote, quote, tick, prime, irk, pop, spark, glitch
* ASTERISK, star, splat, spider, aster, times, wildcard*, gear, dingle,
(Nathan) Hale#, bug, gem, twinkle
() PARENTHESES, parens, round brackets, bananas, ears, bowlegs,
parenthesee (singular only), weapons
( LEFT PARENTHESIS, paren, so, wax, parenthesee, open, sad
) RIGHT PARENTHESIS, thesis, already, wane, unparenthesee, close, happy
+ PLUS SIGN, plus, add, cross, and, intersection, and
, COMMA, tail
- HYPHEN, minus, minus sign, dash, dak, option, flag, negative,
negative sign, worm, bithorpe#
. PERIOD, dot, decimal, decimal point, radix point, point, spot, full stop,
put#, floor
/ SLASH, stroke, virgule, solidus, slant, diagonal, over, slat, slak,
across#, compress#, spare
: COLON, two-spot, double dot, dots
; SEMICOLON, semi, hybrid
<> ANGLE BRACKETS, angles, funnels, brokets
< LESS THAN, less, read from*, from*, in*, comesfrom*, crunch,
sucks
> GREATER THAN, more, write to*, into/toward*, out*, gazinta*, zap,
blows
= EQUAL SIGN, equals, equal, gets, quadrathorpe#, half-mesh
? QUESTION MARK, question, query, whatmark, what, wildchar*, huh, ques,
kwes, quiz, quark, hook
@ AT SIGN, at, each, vortex, whorl, whirlpool, cyclone, snail, ape, cat,
snable-a#, trunk-a#, rose, cabbage, Mercantile symbol
[] BRACKETS, square brackets, U-turns, edged parentheses, mimics
[ LEFT BRACKET, bracket, bra, square, opensquare
] RIGHT BRACKET, unbracket, ket, unsquare, close
\ BACKSLASH, reversed virgule, bash, backslant, backwhack, backslat,
escape*, backslak, bak, reduce#
^ CIRCUMFLEX, caret, carrot, hat, cap, uphat, party hat, housetop,
up arrow, control, boink, chevron, hiccup, to-the, fang, sharkfin,
and#, xor+, wok, trap
_ UNDERSCORE, underline, underbar, under, score, backarrow, flatworm, blank
` GRAVE, grave accent, accent, backquote, left/open quote, backprime,
unapostrophe, backspark, birk, blugle, backtick, push, backglitch,
backping
{} BRACES, curly braces, squiggly braces, curly brackets, squiggle brackets,
Tuborgs#, ponds
{ LEFT BRACE, brace, curly, leftit, embrace, openbrace, begin+
} RIGHT BRACE, unbrace, uncurly, rytit, bracelet, close, end+
| VERTICAL BAR, pipe*, pipe to*, vertical line, broken line#, bar, or+,
bitor+, vert, v-bar, spike, to*, gazinta*, thru*, pipesinta*, tube,
mark, whack, gutter, wall
~ TILDE, twiddle, tilda, tildee, wave, squiggle, swung dash, approx,
wiggle, enyay#, home*, worm
-- MULTIPLE CHARACTER STRINGS --
!? interrobang (one overlapped character)
/* slashterix+
*/ asterslash+
>> appends*, cat-astrophe
-> arrow+, pointer to+, hiccup+
#! sh'bang, wallop
\!* bash-bang-splat
() nil#
&& and+, amper-amper, succeeds-then*
|| or+, fails-then*
-- NOTES --
! bang comes from old card punch phenom where punching ! code made a
loud noise
# octothorpe from Bell System
$ string from BASIC
$ escape from TOPS-10
& donald duck from the Danish "Anders And", which means "Donald Duck"
* splat from DEC "spider" glyph
* Nathan Hale "I have but one asterisk for my country."
= quadrathorpe half an octothorpe
- bithorpe half a quadrathorpe (So what's a monothorpe?)
. put Victor Broge on Electric Company
/ across APL
/ compress APL
@ snable-a from Danish; may translate as "trunk-a"
@ trunk-a "trunk" = "elephant nose"
^ and from formal logic
\ reduce APL
{} Tuborgs from advertizing for well-known Danish beverage
| broken line EBCDIC has two vertical bars, one solid and one broken.
~ enyay from the Spanish n-tilde
() nil LISP
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A symbolic link is a POINTER to a file, | Maarten Litmaath @ VU Amsterdam:
a hard link is the file system's GOTO. | ma...@cs.vu.nl, mcsun!botter!maart