>>>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?
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>>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".
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>I was referring to the US. Is that the case there too, cos that's what I've heard the bit that the cars roll on called.
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>>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.
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>>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'".
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Ok, if you want to get technical for real;

>cumflex

We call it a caret

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>@ = "commercial at"
>~ = "cedilla"

We call it a tilde

># I think US call "pound sign" - we call it "hash"

We call it the "pound sign" in Canada too.

>£ = "pound sign" (not on US keyboards I think)

It's a special character. Usually keyboard "ALT-0163"

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>>>>I thought that was "bang".
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>>>>>Oh, like "shriek" for "!" :-)
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