Names of ASCII symbols

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:

     Symbol Proper Name    Usually Called
     ------ -------------- -------------------------------------------
        !                  Exclamation Mark, Ball bat, Bang
        "                  Double Quotation Mark, Double Tick
        #    Octothorp     Number sign, Pound sign, Sharp symbol,
                           Hash mark
        $                  Dollar sign
        %                  Percent sign
        &    Ampersand     And sign
        '    Acute accent  Single quote, Tick
        (    Parenthesis   Left parenthesis
        )    Parenthesis   Right parenthesis
        *    Asterisk      Star, Splat
        +                  Plus sign
        ,    Comma         Comma
        -    Hyphen        Dash
        .    Period        Period, Dot
        /    Virgule       Slash
        :    Colon         Colon, Snake bite
        ;    Semicolon     Semicolon
        <                  Less than sign, Left angle bracket
        =                  Equal sign
        >                  Greater than sign, Right angle bracket
        ?    Question mark Question mark
        @                  At sign
        [                  Left square bracket
        \                  Back slash
        ]                  Right square bracket
        ^    Circumflex    Carat, Hat
        _    Underscore    Underbar, Underline
        `    Grave accent  Back quote, Back tick
        {                  Left curly bracket, Left brace
        |                  Vertical bar, Pipe, Or sign
        }                  Right curly bracket, Right brace
        ~    Tilde         Squiggly

        I  heard the octothorp described by a NASA engineer in a class
     I was teaching several years ago.  "Rocket scientists" are always
     right,  aren't  they?  :-)  Can anyone fill in the blanks or con-
     tribute more?

Bill--
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