!

bang [Old telegraphers' term. Morse's original code had no punctuation codes, so punctuation had to be spelled out to be sent. ``BANG'' was the convention.]

!

pling. So called in some computer documentation.

!

shriek, exclaim, shout, wow, ..., baseball bat.

.

stop [Old telegraphers' term. Morse's original code had no punctuation codes, so punctuation had to be spelled out to be sent. ``STOP'' was the convention.]

.

dot. So called in TCP/IP addresses. Also a convention for long unix filenames, so the slightly hidden files whose names begin with this character are called ``dot files'' and .twmrc and .sig are pronounced ``dot tee double-you em ar cee'' and ``dot sig''. Usage varies.

.

period

.

(decimal) point.

*

star, gear, splat, hexathorpe?

*

asterisk.

#

mesh, hash, [garden] gate.

#

Octothorpe, pound, number.

`

grave accent; pling (ambiguous).

'

acute accent

'

Abbreviation for foot.

'', "

Abbreviation for inch.