symbol sets in British perspective

[Carolyn Quintero]

I like both "scrunch" and "bang" and shall use them henceforth.
Carolyn
PS shouldn't we name the question mark "quiz"?  Then I need a name for the
upside-down-question mark, too.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Koontz John E" <John.Koontz at colorado.edu>
To: <siouan at lists.colorado.edu>
Sent: Thursday, June 13, 2002 1:11 PM
Subject: Re: symbol sets in British perspective


> On Thu, 13 Jun 2002, Carolyn Quintero wrote:
> > ... However, on my keyboard, the character above 3 is the
> > pound-sign (like tic-tac-toe), or what was in the early days of
computing
> > around 1982 called "scrunch" by computer folks.  I've called it
"scrunch"
> > ever since, but not many people know this term?
>
> The only oddity in this line I can think of is that Unix people call
> exclamation mark "bang."
>
> JEK
>