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by first member. For each character, common names are given in rough order of popularity, followed by names that are reported but rarely seen; official ANSI/CCITT names are surrounded by brokets: <>. Square brackets mark the particularly silly names introduced by {INTERCAL}. Ordinary parentheticals provide some usage information.

      !

       Common: {bang}; pling; excl; shriek; <exclamation mark>.

       Rare: factorial; exclam; smash; cuss; boing; yell; wow; hey;

       wham; eureka; [spark-spot]; soldier.

      "

       Common: double quote; quote. Rare: literal mark;

       double-glitch; <quotation marks>; <dieresis>; dirk;

       [rabbit-ears]; double prime.

      #

       Common: <number sign>; pound; pound sign; hash; sharp;

       {crunch}; hex; [mesh]; octothorpe. Rare: flash; crosshatch;

       grid; pig-pen; tictactoe; scratchmark; thud; thump; {splat}.

      $

       Common: dollar; <dollar sign>. Rare: currency symbol; buck;

       cash; string (from BASIC); escape (when used as the echo of

       ASCII ESC); ding; cache; [big money].

      %

       Common: percent; <percent sign>; mod; grapes. Rare:

       [double-oh-seven].

      &

       Common: <ampersand>; amper; and. Rare: address (from C);

       reference (from C++); andpersand; bitand; background (from

       `sh(1)'); pretzel; amp. [INTERCAL called this `ampersand';

       what could be sillier?]

      '

       Common: single quote; quote; <apostrophe>. Rare: prime;

       glitch; tick; irk; pop; [spark]; <closing single quotation

       mark>; <acute accent>.

      ()

       Common: left/right paren; left/right parenthesis; left/right;

       paren/thesis; open/close paren; open/close; open/close

       parenthesis; left/right banana. Rare: so/al-ready;

       lparen/rparen; <opening/closing parenthesis>; open/close round

       bracket, parenthisey/unparenthisey; [wax/wane]; left/right

       ear.

      *

       Common: star; [{splat}]; <asterisk>. Rare: wildcard; gear;

       dingle; mult; spider; aster; times; twinkle; glob (see

       {glob}); {Nathan Hale}.

      +

       Common: <plus>; add. Rare: cross; [intersection].

      ,

       Common: <comma>. Rare: <cedilla>; [tail].

      -

       Common: dash; <hyphen>; <minus>. Rare: [worm]; option; dak;

       bithorpe.

      .

       Common: dot; point; <period>; <decimal point>. Rare: radix

       point; full stop; [spot].

      /

       Common: slash; stroke; <slant>; forward slash. Rare:

       diagonal; solidus; over; slak; virgule; [slat].

      :

       Common: <colon>. Rare: dots; [two-spot].

      ;

       Common: <semicolon>; semi. Rare: weenie; [hybrid],

       pit-thwong.

      <>

       Common: <less/greater than>; left/right angle bracket;

       bra/ket; left/right broket. Rare: from/{into, towards}; read

       from/write to; suck/blow; comes-from/gozinta; in/out;

       crunch/zap (all from UNIX); [angle/right angle].

      =

       Common: <equals>; gets; takes. Rare: quadrathorpe;

       [half-mesh].

      ?

       Common: query; <question mark>; {ques}. Rare: whatmark;

       [what]; wildchar; huh; hook; buttonhook; hunchback.

      @

       Common: at sign; at; strudel. Rare: each; vortex; whorl;

       [whirlpool]; cyclone; snail; ape; cat; rose; cabbage;

       <commercial at>.

      V

       Rare: [book].

      []

       Common: left/right square bracket; <opening/closing bracket>;

       bracket/unbracket; left/right bracket. Rare: square/unsquare;

       [U turn/U turn back].

      \

       Common: backslash; escape (from C/UNIX); reverse slash; slosh;

       backslant; backwhack. Rare: bash; <reverse slant>; reversed

       virgule; [backslat].

      ^

       Common: hat; control; uparrow; caret; <circumflex>. Rare:

       chevron; [shark (or shark-fin)]; to the (`to the power of');

       fang; pointer (in Pascal).

      _

       Common: <underline>; underscore; underbar; under. Rare:

       score; backarrow; skid; [flatworm].

      `

       Common: backquote; left quote; left single quote; open quote;

       <grave accent>; grave. Rare: backprime; [backspark];

       unapostrophe; birk; blugle; back tick; back glitch; push;

       <opening single quotation mark>; quasiquote.

      {}

       Common: open/close brace; left/right brace; left/right

       squiggly; left/right squiggly bracket/brace; left/right curly

       bracket/brace; <opening/closing brace>. Rare: brace/unbrace;

       curly/uncurly; leftit/rytit; left/right squirrelly;

       [embrace/bracelet].

      |

       Common: bar; or; or-bar; v-bar; pipe; vertical bar. Rare:

       <vertical line>; gozinta; thru; pipesinta (last three from

       UNIX); [spike].

      ~

       Common: <tilde>; squiggle; {twiddle}; not. Rare: approx;

       wiggle; swung dash; enyay; [sqiggle (sic)].

      The pronunciation of `#' as `pound' is common in the U.S.

       but a bad idea; {{Commonwealth Hackish}} has its own, rather more

       apposite use of `pound sign' (confusingly, on British keyboards

       the pound graphic

       happens to replace `#'; thus Britishers sometimes

       call `#' on a U.S.-ASCII keyboard `pound', compounding the

       American error). The U.S. usage derives from an old-fashioned

       commercial practice of using a `#' suffix to tag pound weights

       on bills of lading. The character is usually pronounced `hash'

      

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