>>>From where I come from;
>>>'/' = 'slash'
>>>'!' = 'bang'
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>>Shriek
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>Bang
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>>>and for those of us who have problems pronouncing 'asterisk'....
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>>Ain't that ALL yanks? :-)
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>>>'*' = 'splat'
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>>What's wrong with "star", as we say?
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>dunno - but almost all of the Fortran programmer I knew called it 'splat', which would get interesting calling out code to each other
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I always used (and still use) "star." Wasn't there a regular column in PC Magazine (PC World????) back in the 80's called "Star Dot Star" ????
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