For your reference, here are the rest of my findings on keyboard slang, organized for you in this handy little table. This is by no means a complete list: feel free to add to, discuss, and/or ridicule the following names. You may never look at a keyboard the same way again!
| Symbol | Common Name | Other Names |
|---|---|---|
| ! | exclamation | exclamation mark/point, bang, screamer |
| * | asterisk | star, splat |
| / | slash | stroke, whack, virgule, slant, oblique |
| . | period | dot, full stop (British) |
| # | number sign | pound sign, hash (British), octothorpe, crosshatch |
| | | vertical bar | pipe, split bar, divider line |
| ~ | tilde | twiddle, squiggle |
| ` | acute | grave, backquote, push, back tick |
| ^ | caret | circumflex accent, hat |
| ‘ | apostrophe | single quote, prime mark |
| “ | double quote | inverted commas (British) |
| <> | less than/greater than | angle brackets, chevrons |
| { } | braces | curly brackets (British) |
| ( ) | parentheses | round brackets, brackets (British), fingernails |
| [ ] | brackets | box/square brackets (primarily British) |
| \ | backslash | slosh |
| _ | underscore | understrike |
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