Terence Rudkin wrote: > On Wed, 2003-12-03 at 17:56, Ammon Lauritzen wrote: > >>How about punctuation? bang, hash, tick, star, dollar, caret, tilde, etc... > > STAR , CARET that ain't right I don't know about caret but star for '*' is too widely used to object to. It's simply easier to pronounce than asterisk. Paul Scott