I know that forward slash and backslash are "whack" and "backwhack," and I know that a pound-sign or number sign is "crunch" and an exclamation point, "bang." What I would like to know is whether or not there's a popular nickname for the dollar sign. I call it "cash," but that may just be Yank conceit working its subtle way into my Linux experience.
Also (the question of the century), have they come up with a name for the @ sign yet? I'm inclined to borrow a bit from the German and call it an "At-St�ck" (At-Piece, -Item or -Thing), but I'm curious to see if anyone else has made suggestions.
The one I have a bit of contention with is the "percent" sign. I just shorten the English word, 'harden' the c and say "perk." One might puzzle over it for a moment until they remember that the exclamation point is already called "bang" therefore I mustn't mean "perk" as in "perk up." (Hasn't caused much confusion so far around here.) At any rate, Mr Sheppard (ss64.com) has the following for %:
I worked at a place where the the single quote was called (drum roll please) *quote* and the double-quote was called (and I am not making this up) a *scoogie*.
One of my co-workers calls the hyphen (-) a "tack". So the command "ls -l" sounds like "ell ess tack ell".
