Re: Saying characters out loud (derives from hash, pound,octothorpe?)

From: Tex Texin (tex@i18nguy.com)
Date: Mon Jul 08 2002 - 13:08:57 EDT

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I have heard:
squiqqle for tilde
bang for exclamation mark
hook for question mark.
tex

Barry Caplan wrote:
>
> At 11:37 AM 7/5/2002 +0100, Michael Everson wrote:
> >>Also, how does one say the U+007E character out loud while reading out the
> >>address of a web page?
> >
> >"Tilde". Get real, William.
>
> FF5E is colloquially known as a "wave" in Japanese, IIRC, and hence 007E is a "small wave" or "half width wave".
>
> Barry Caplan
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