Puncutation Names and aliases
February 23, 2010 by admin
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The following is a list of common keyboard punction symbols, with their proper name and common alias names.
| Names of punctuation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Space | blank, ghost (NetHack) | |
| ! | Exclamation point | exclamation (mark), (ex)clam, excl, wow, hey, boing, bang, shout, yell, shriek, pling, factorial, ball-bat, smash, cuss, store, potion (NetHack), not (UNIX) (C), dammit (UNIX) |
| “ | Quotation mark | (double) quote, dirk, literal mark, rabbit ears, double ping, double glitch, amulet (NetHack), web (NetHack), inverted commas |
| # | Crosshatch | pound, pound sign, number, number sign, sharp, octothorpe, hash, (garden) fence, crunch, mesh, hex, flash, grid, pig-pen, tictactoe, scratch (mark), (garden) gate, hak, oof, rake, sink (NetHack), corridor (NetHack), unequal, punch mark |
| $ | Dollar Sign | dollar, cash, currency symbol, buck, string, escape, ding, big-money, gold (NetHack), Sonne |
| % | Percent Sign | percent, mod (C), shift-5, double-oh-seven, grapes, food (NetHack) |
| & | Ampersand | and, amper, address (C), shift-7, andpersand, snowman, bitand (C), donald duck, daemon (NetHack), background (UNIX), pretzel |
| ‘ | Apostrophe | (single) quote, tick, prime, irk, pop, spark, glitch, lurker above (NetHack) |
| * | Asterisk | star, splat, spider, aster, times, wildcard (UNIX), gear, dingle, (Nathan) Hale, bug, gem (NetHack), twinkle, funny button, pine cone, glob (UNIX) |
| () | Parentheses | parens, round brackets, bananas, ears, bowlegs |
| ( | Left Parenthesis | (open) paren, so, wane, parenthesee, open, sad, tool (NetHack) |
| ) | Right Parenthesis | already, wax, unparenthesee, close (paren), happy, thesis, weapon (NetHack) |
| + | Plus Sign | plus, add, cross, and, intersection, door (NetHack), spellbook (NetHack) |
| , | Comma | tail, trapper (NetHack) |
| - | Hyphen | minus (sign), dash, dak, option, flag, negative (sign), worm, bithorpe |
| . | Period | dot, decimal (point), (radix) point, spot, full stop, put, floor (NetHack) |
| / | Slash | stroke, virgule, solidus, slant, diagonal, over, slat, slak, across, compress, reduce, replicate, spare, divided-by, wand (NetHack), forward slash, shilling |
| : | Colon | two-spot, double dot, dots, chameleon (NetHack) |
| ; | Semicolon | semi, hybrid, giant eel (NetHack), go-on |
| <> | Angle Brackets | angles, funnels, brokets, pointy brackets, widgets |
| < | Less Than | less, read from (UNIX), from (UNIX), in (UNIX), comesfrom (UNIX), crunch, sucks, left chevron, open pointy (brack[et]), bra, upstairs (NetHack), west, (left|open) widget |
| > | Greater Than | more, write to (UNIX), into/toward (UNIX), out (UNIX), gazinta (UNIX), zap, blows, right chevron, closing pointy (brack[et]), ket, downstairs (NetHack), east, (right|close) widget |
| = | Equal Sign | equal(s), gets, becomes, quadrathorpe, half-mesh, ring (NetHack) |
| ? | Question Mark | question, query, whatmark, what, wildchar (UNIX), huh, ques, kwes, quiz, quark, hook, scroll (NetHack), interrogation point |
| @ | At Sign | at, each, vortex, whirl, whirlpool, cyclone, snail, ape (tail), cat, snable-a, trunk-a, rose, cabbage, Mercantile symbol, strudel, fetch, shopkeeper (NetHack), human (NetHack), commercial-at, monkey (tail) |
| [] | Brackets | square brackets, U-turns, edged parentheses |
| [ | Left Bracket | bracket, bra, (left) square (brack[et]), opensquare, armor (NetHack) |
| ] | Right Bracket | unbracket, ket, right square (brack[et]), unsquare, close, mimic (NetHack) |
| \ | Backslash | reversed virgule, bash, (back)slant, backwhack, backslat, escape (UNIX), backslak, bak, scan, expand, opulent throne (NetHack), slosh, slope, blash |
| ^ | Circumflex | caret, carrot, (top)hat, cap, uphat, party hat, housetop, up arrow, control, boink, chevron, hiccup, power, to-the(-power), fang, sharkfin, and, xor (C), wok, trap (NetHack), pointer, pipe (UNIX), upper-than |
| _ | Underscore | underline, underbar, under, score, backarrow, flatworm, blank, chain (NetHack), gets, dash, sneak |
| ` | Grave | (grave/acute) accent, backquote, left/open quote, backprime, unapostrophe, backspark, birk, blugle, backtick, push, backglitch, backping, execute, boulder (NetHack), rock (NetHack), blip |
| {} | Braces | curly braces, squiggly braces, curly brackets, squiggle brackets, Tuborgs, ponds, curly chevrons, squirrly braces, hitchcocks, chippendale brackets |
| { | Left Brace | brace, curly, leftit, embrace, openbrace, begin (C), fountain (NetHack) |
| } | Right Brace | unbrace, uncurly, rytit, bracelet, close, end (C), a pool (NetHack) |
| | | Vertical Bar | pipe (UNIX), pipe to (UNIX), vertical line, broken line, bar, or (C), bitor (C), vert, v-bar, spike, to (UNIX), gazinta (UNIX), thru (UNIX), pipesinta (UNIX), tube, mark, whack, gutter, wall (NetHack) |
| ~ | Tilde | twiddle, tilda, tildee, wave, squiggle, swung dash, approx, wiggle, enyay, home (UNIX), worm, not (C) |
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