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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;
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I don't know how my message got screwed up (well, yes I do - that old black magic called "Why the hell has overwrite mode come on again, as it often does when I'm editing a message?"), but:

cumflex

was supposed to be circumflex - ^
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>We call it a caret

No, it's circumflex. < or > are left- and right-caret, surely.

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>>~ = "cedilla"
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>We call it a tilde

Yipes! you're absolutely right. That's what I meant but somehow got the French char, cedilla = ¸ mixed up in my head :-S
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>># I think US call "pound sign" - we call it "hash"
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>We call it the "pound sign" in Canada too.
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>>£ = "pound sign" (not on US keyboards I think)
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>It's a special character. Usually keyboard "ALT-0163"
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