pronunciation of *

[Jeremy J. Epstein]

In article <4081 at rtech.rtech.com>, mikes at rtech.UUCP (Mike Schilling(This sentence no verb.)) writes:
> From article <4758 at cbnewsc.ATT.COM>, by sft at cbnewsc.ATT.COM (scott.thompson):
> > The way to pronounce '*' is "splat".
> 
> Splat it is, Kurt Vonnegut notwithstanding.  By the way, the British folks 
> I worked with at a certain mass-transit project pronounced '!' as "shriek".  
> This is not without charm.

I worked with someone many years ago (hello Bob Knight) who insisted
that the "#" was called an octathorpe (which my edition of Webster has
never heard of).

Jeremy Epstein
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