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Re:ASCII Pronunciation Rules for Programmers by thedob on Thursday June 12, 2008 @10:19AM (#215952)
I present to you, the best of the best...

$ - Big Money

% - Double-O-Seven

& - Pretzel

{} - Left Squirrely, Right Squirrely

; - Weenie

# - Pigpen

Anybody work in a startup using solely the above vocabulary? Power to you.

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Re:ASCII Pronunciation Rules for Programmers by jcl on Thursday June 12, 2008 @11:13AM (#215995)
The INTERCAL manual had some of the best. I was surprised to see that -- according to the Jargon file ASCII entry -- several of the INTERCAL pronunciations have slipped into what ESR considers common use, e.g. "mesh" and "splat".
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