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From: rturkel@cas.org (Rick Turkel)
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In article <1995Feb14.122047.328@kuc01.kuniv.edu.kw>,
 <tim@kuc01.kuniv.edu.kw> wrote:
>
>If anyone's interested, I'd like to expand this thread, and find out what
>all the keyboard symbols are called in various languages.  For example, in
>Chinese (on Taiwan), the "commercial at" (or seven-bit schwa -- or is it
>"two-bit" schwa?) is called the "little mouse" (hsiao3 lao3 shu3), and the
>number sign is called the "field-character number" (qing3 zi4 hao4 --
>referring to a Chinese character it resembles).  I'm also curious about
>various colloquial terms for them in English, like "roll-mop" (never heard
>that before!).
>
>Correct me if I'm wrong on these, and add what you can from other languages:
>
>~      tilde                           @       commercial "at"
>#      number sign                     $       dollar sign

	Also, pound sign or hash mark.

>%      per cent mark (why not sign?)   ^       caret

	I prefer sign, myself.

>&      ampersand (<"and per se and")   *       asterisk
>()     parentheses                     +       plus sign
>-      minus sign, hyphen, en-dash     =       equals sign

	Or just plain dash.

>[]     brackets, square brackets       {}      braces, curly braces
>|      pipe (but before computers?)    \       backslash

	Was there such a thing before computers?

>/      slash, stroke                   <>      angle brackets

	Angle brackets when used in pairs, less than and greater than
	symbols when used alone.

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