Common Names Rare Names
! exclamation mark
bang
pling
excl
not
shriek
factorial
exclam
smash
cuss
boing
yell
wow
hey
wham
eureka
spark-spot
soldier
control
" quotation marks
quote
double quote

literal mark
double-glitch
dieresis
dirk rabbit-ears
double prime
#
hash
pound sign
number sign
pound
sharp
crunch
hex
mesh

grid
crosshatch
octothorpe
flash
square
pig-pen tictactoe
scratchmark
thud
thump
splat
$ dollar sign
dollar
currency symbol
buck
cash
string escape
ding
cache
big money
% percent sign
mod
grapes double-oh-seven
& ampersand
amp
amper
and
and sign address
reference
andpersand
bitand
background
pretzel
' apostrophe
single quote
quote

prime
glitch
tick
irk
pop
spark
closing single quotation mark
acute accent
( ) opening / closing parenthesis
left / right paren
left / right parenthesis
left / right
open / close
open / close paren
paren / thesis so/already
lparen/rparen
opening/closing parenthesis
opening/closing round bracket
left/right round bracket
wax/wane
parenthisey/unparenthisey
left/right ear
[ ] opening / closing bracket
left / right bracket
left / right square bracket
bracket / unbracket square / unsquare
u turn / u turn back
{ } opening / closing brace
open / close brace
left / right brace
left / right squiggly
left / right squiggly bracket/brace
left / right curly bracket/brace brace / unbrace
curly / uncurly
leftit / rytit
left / right squirrelly
embrace / bracelet
less / greater than
bra / ket
left / right angle
left / right angle bracket
left / right broket from / into (or towards)
read from / write to
suck / blow
comes-from / gozinta
in / out
crunch / zap
tic / tac
angle / right angle
* asterisk
star
splat
wildcard
gear
dingle
mult
spider aster
times
twinkle
glob
Nathan Hale
+ plus
add cross
intersection
, comma cedilla
tail
- dash
hyphen
minus worm
option
dak
bithorpe
. period
dot
point
decimal point radix point
full stop
spot
/ slash
stroke
slant
forward slash diagonal
solidus
over
slak
virgule
slat
\
backslash
hack
whack
escape
reverse slash slosh
backslant
backwhack
bash
reverse slant
reversed virgule
backslat
: colon dots
two-spot
; semicolon
semi weenie
hybrid
pit-thwong
= equals
gets
takes quadrathorpe
half-mesh
? question mark
query
ques
quiz
whatmark
what
wildchar huh
hook
buttonhook
hunchback
@ at sign
at
strudel
each
vortex
whorl
whirlpool
cyclone snail
ape
cat
rose
cabbage
commercial at
^ circumflex
caret
hat
control
uparrow
xor sign
chevron
shark (or shark-fin)
to the
fang
pointer
_ underline
underscore
underbar
under score
backarrow
skid
flatworm
` grave accent
backquote
left quote
left single quote
open quote
grave
backprime
backspark
unapostrophe
birk
blugle back tick
back glitch
push
opening single quote
quasiquote
| bar
or
or-bar
v-bar
pipe
vertical bar vertical line
gozinta
thru
pipesinta
spike
~ tilde
squiggle
twiddle
not approx
wiggle
swung dash
enyay
sqiggle (sic)

Table C-1. ASCII Pronunciation Guide
Character Pronunciation
! bang, exlamation
* star, asterisk
$ dollar
@ at
% percent
& ampersand
" double-quote
' single-quote, tick
( ) open/close bracket, parentheses
greater than
- dash, hyphen
. dot
, comma
/ slash, forward-slash
\ backslash, slosh
: colon
; semi-colon
= equals
? question-mark
^ caret (pron. carrot)
_ underscore
[ ] open/close square bracket
{ } open/close curly brackets, open/close brace
| pipe, or vertical bar
~ tilde (pron. ``til-duh'', wiggle, squiggle)
` backtick