>As Tracy calls it. I've always known it as "shriek" in this country. Mind you, you guys call the pavement "sidewalk" and the road "pavement" so what can yer do?

Not quite. We call the 'pavement' "sidewalk" and "pavement" both. We call the 'road', "road". We do pave the road, but we don't refer to it as "pavement".

Now, of course, we call the highway "highway", even when it's not an overpass. Even when it's an underpass under an overpass, we still call it a highway. Must refer to speed rather than altitude, I guess.

And for the record, the technical term for the little pointy hat over the '6' on the keyboard, is "little pointy hat over the '6'".

>>I thought that was "bang".
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>>>Oh, like "shriek" for "!" :-)
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>>>>Whack, Whack stands for //
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>>>>>Say what?
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>>>>>>whack
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>>>>>>>>>It's a bit like my old gripe about TV announcers saying "forward-slash" when giving a URL. You never hear anyone say "back-slash" so why do they bother?
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>>>>>>>>Sorry, when I'm guiding a client over the phone, I always say 'back-slash' when talking about directories. If I don't I can be darned sure they'll use the wrong one.
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>>>>>>>Sure! In the one case where "\" is used, in finding paths on a PC. But TV and radio announcers are never giving this info - just web addresses. The point is "/" is and always has been "slash", "solidus" or "stroke". The "\" was only introduced by IBM for their PCs (for SOME magic reason!).