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http://symbolcodes.tlt.psu.edu/accents/codealt.html#punc

http://symbolcodes.tlt.psu.edu/glossary.html#top

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Unicode_characters

http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/2648/how-does-one-pronounce-the-symbol

How does one pronounce the '@' symbol?The "at mark", "at sign", or "at symbol" is its usual name. According to Wikipedia its official name is "commercial at".

http://ss64.com/bash/syntax-pronounce.html

How can I pronounce @ symbol: At / At the rate?
Can I use it in a sentence? Please explain with an example.

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!	Exclamation point	exclamation (mark), (ex)clam, excl, wow, hey, boing, bang, shout, yell, shriek, pling, factorial, ball-bat, smash, cuss, store, not (UNIX) (C), dammit (UNIX)
"	Quotation mark (double)	(double) quote, dirk, literal mark, rabbit ears, double ping, double glitch, inverted commas
#	Octothorpe	hash, crosshatch, pound, pound sign, number, number sign, octothorpe, (garden) fence, crunch, mesh, hex, flash, grid, pig-pen, tictactoe, scratch (mark), (garden) gate, hak, oof, rake, unequal, punch mark. (but not the musical SHARP ♯ which has vertical lines and oblique horizontal lines)
$	Dollar Sign	dollar, cash, currency symbol, buck, string, escape, ding, big-money, Sonne
%	Percent Sign	percent, mod (C), shift-5, double-oh-seven, grapes
&	Ampersand	and, amper, address (C), shift-7, andpersand, snowman, bitand (C), donald duck, background (UNIX), pretzel
'	Typewriter Apostrophe	Quotation mark (single), tick, prime, irk, pop, spark, glitch. (deprecated in Unicode)
*	Asterisk	star, splat, spider, aster, times, wildcard (UNIX), gear, dingle, (Nathan) Hale, bug, twinkle, funny button, pine cone, glob (UNIX)
()	Parentheses	parens, round brackets, bananas, ears, bowlegs
(	Left Parenthesis	(open) paren, so, wane, parenthesee, open, sad
)	Right Parenthesis	already, wax, unparenthesee, close (paren), happy, thesis
+	Plus Sign	plus, add, cross, and, intersection
,	Comma	tail
-	Hyphen	minus (sign), dash, dak, option, flag, negative (sign), worm, bithorpe
.	Period	dot, decimal (point), (radix) point, spot, full stop, put
/	Slash	stroke, virgule, solidus, slant, diagonal, over, slat, slak, across, compress, reduce, replicate, spare, divided-by, forward slash, shilling
:	Colon	two-spot, double dot, dots
;	Semicolon	semi, hybrid, go-on
<>	Angle Brackets	angles, funnels, brokets, pointy brackets, widgets
<	Less Than	less, read from (UNIX), from (UNIX), in (UNIX), comesfrom (UNIX), crunch, sucks, left chevron, open pointy (brack[et]), bra, west, (left|open) widget
>	Greater Than	more, write to (UNIX), into/toward (UNIX), out (UNIX), gazinta (UNIX), zap, blows, right chevron, closing pointy (brack[et]), ket, east, (right|close) widget
=	Equal Sign	equal(s), gets, becomes, quadrathorpe, half-mesh
?	Question Mark	question, query, whatmark, what, wildchar (UNIX), huh, ques, kwes, quiz, quark, hook, interrogation point
@	At Sign	at, each, vortex, whirl, whirlpool, cyclone, snail, ape (tail), cat, snable-a, trunk-a, rose, cabbage, Mercantile symbol, strudel, fetch, commercial-at, monkey (tail)
[]	Brackets	square brackets, U-turns, edged parentheses
[	Left Bracket	bracket, bra, (left) square (brack[et]), opensquare
]	Right Bracket	unbracket, ket, right square (brack[et]), unsquare, close
\	Backslash	reversed virgule, bash, (back)slant, backwhack, backslat, escape (UNIX), backslak, bak, scan, expand, slosh, slope, blash
^	Circumflex	caret, carrot, (top)hat, cap, uphat, party hat, housetop, up arrow, control, boink, chevron, hiccup, power, to-the(-power), fang, sharkfin, and, xor (C), wok, pointer, pipe (UNIX), upper-than
_/th>	Underscore	underline, underbar, under, score, backarrow, flatworm, blank, gets, dash, sneak
`	Grave	(grave/acute) accent, backquote, left/open quote, backprime, unapostrophe, backspark, birk, blugle, backtick, push, backglitch, backping, execute, blip
{}	Braces	curly braces, squiggly braces, curly brackets, squiggle brackets, Tuborgs, ponds, curly chevrons, squirrly braces, hitchcocks, chippendale brackets
{	Left Brace	brace, curly, leftit, embrace, openbrace, begin (C)
}	Right Brace	unbrace, uncurly, rytit, bracelet, close, end (C)
|	Vertical Bar	pipe (UNIX), pipe to (UNIX), vertical line, broken line, bar, or (C), bitor (C), vert, v-bar, spike, to (UNIX), gazinta (UNIX), thru (UNIX), pipesinta (UNIX), tube, mark, whack, gutter
~	Tilde	twiddle, tilda, tildee, wave, squiggle, swung dash, approx, wiggle, enyay, home (UNIX), worm, not (C)

@ “at sign” or “commercial at sign”. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/At_sign .

# “number sign” or “pound sign' or “octothorpe” or “hash mark”

$ “dollar sign”, for example $29.00 would be read as “twenty-nine dollars'

% “percent sign”, so 50% is “fifty per cent''

^ “caret” or “up-arrow head” or “circumflex accent”. Often used on computers to indicate the following symbol(s) would be superscripted in normal typography, that is 5^23 is the same as 5²³. Sometimes called a “carrot” by the illiterate.

& “and sign” or “ampersand”. An abbreviation symbol for “and”.

* “asterisk” or “star”

( “opening parenthesis”

) “closing parenthesis”

_ “low line”, “underbar”, “underline”, “underscore”

- “hyphen-minus”, “hyphen”, “minus”: a typewriter symbol used for both hyphen and minus. Sometimes, when spaces appear on both sides of it, it represents a dash, but a dash is more often built from two hyphen-minuses. In normal typography for dashes there is an en-dash (–) and an em-dash (—) which are different characters.

+ "plus sign”

= “equal sign”

| “vertical line”, “vertical bar”, “pipe”

\ “backslash”

< “less than sign”

> “greater than sign”

, “comma”

. “period”, “full stop”, “decimal point”

? “question mark”

/ “slash”, “virgule”, also usually used on computers as a “division slash” or “solidus”, though in normal typography the division slash is more slanted. Misnamed “SOLIDUS” by Unicode.

" “quotation marks” or “straight quotation marks” or “typewriter quotation marks. Originally a typewriter substitute for “ (opening quotation marks), ” (closing quotation marks), ʺ (double prime used to mean “inches” and “seconds”), and〃(ditto mark).

' “apostrophe'' or “single quotation mark” or “straight apostrophe” or “typewriter apostrophe” or “straight single quotation mark” or “typewriter single quotation mark”. Originally a typewriter substitute for ‘ (opening single quotation mark), ’ (closing single quotation mark or apostrophe), ′ (single prime used to mean “feet” in measurement and to mean “minutes”)

: “colon”, a punctuation mark

; “semi-colon”, a punctuation mark

I started out making links, but Yahoo Answers only allows ten so I did not continue. But if you search on most of my meanings you will find articles that tell you more.

Many of these symbols also have other names in various special disciplines and some even have other common names.

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~........Swirly doo-dad.
`.........accent mark.
!....Exclamation point.
@........at.
#.......pound sign.
$.......dollar sign.
%....percent.
^..........carrot.
&......ampersand (and).
*.......asterisk.
( )......parenthesis.
_.......underscore.
-......dash/hyphen.
+....plus sign.
=.......equal(s) sign.
|.......I dunno.
\......slash.
*......another asterisk.
<..........side carrot.
>..........right carrot.
, ..........comma.
?...........question mark.
/..........backslash.
".....quotation mark.
'.......apostrophe.
: ......colon.
; ....semi-colon.

Signs and symbols

Internet/web symbols

We are all very familiar with symbols that we use everyday on the internet and on our computers, but are we always sure how to say them?

“At” symbol (@)

The @ “at” symbol is used in email addresses.

e.g. david.jones@international-indemnity.com

You would read this as: “David dot Jones at international hyphen indemnity dot com”

Another symbol that produces a lot of problems is the underscore (_):

jennifer_bateson@hwx.org

“Jennifer underscore Bateson at H W X dot org”

Slashes

The forward slash (sometimes just called “slash”) (/) is used in web page addresses:

Universal-Appliances.co.uk/customer_enquiries

“Universal hyphen Appliances dot co dot UK (forward) slash customer underscore enquiries”.

The back slash (or backslash) (\) is only really used for file paths on a PC (personal computer).

E.g. See if you can find the file in C:\Users\User\AppData\Local\Temp

This would be read as:

C (drive) Users backslash User backslash AppData backslash Local backslash Temp

If you have to read this out (typically when you are speaking to someone on an IT helpdesk or in a technical support department) you would probably just say:

“C Users User AppData Local Temp”.

Maths and science

Even though they are all perfectly familiar, the symbols used in maths and science can cause a lot of problems when you have to say them, or read them out loud (e.g. during a presentation, or dictating to someone over the phone).

Plus / add (+)

3 + 4 = 7

Say: “Three plus four equals seven”

Minus/Subtract/Take away (-)

9  - 8 = 1

Say: “Nine minus eight equals one”

Times (multiply) (X) (*)

8 x 8 = 64

Say: Eight times eight is 64.

Or: eight eights are sixty-four.

Divide( ÷) (/)

24 ÷ 8 = 3

Say: “Twenty-four divided by eight equals three”

Greater than (>) and less than (<)

These symbols are used to show that something is either “greater than” (>) a certain amount – or “less than” (<) a given figure:

<50% means “less than fifty per cent”, e.g. 49%

>50% means “greater than/more than fifty per cent”, e.g. 51%

Degree

30°C – Thirty degrees centigrade (or Celsius).

Note: Americans, and some British people, use Fahrenheit instead of centigrade.  In Britain this is particularly common when demonstrating a dramatically high temperature, for example, “PASSENGERS ROAST IN 100° TUBE CARRIAGES”

Other symbols

The percentage symbol (%) is read as “per cent”, e.g. 56% “fifty-six per cent”.

The hash symbol (#) and the asterisk (or star)(*) symbol are often used in automated instructions, e.g. when you phone a call centre using a touch-tone phone:

Enter your sixteen digit card number followed by the hash key (#).

Thankyou. Please press the star key now (*).  Note, the hash key (#) may be called the pound key in the USA.

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