Original Usenet thread from alt.ascii-art, started 9 Jan 1998.
Names of ASCII symbols
alt.ascii-art
· 1 message · 9 Jan 1998
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--
...who says "If you can change your thoughts you can change the world."
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