Punctuation Names

ASCII Pronunciation Rules for Programmers

	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
&	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 parenthesisleft / 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 bracketleft / 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	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
*	asteriskstar splat	wildcard gear dingle mult spider aster times twinkle glob Nathan Hale
-	dash hyphen minus	worm option dak bithorpe
.	perioddot point decimal point	radix point full stop spot
/	slash stroke slant forward slash	diagonal solidus over slak
\	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
=	equalsgets takes	quadrathorpe half-mesh
^	circumflexcaret 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)