On 1/5/06, caeruleancentaur <caeruleancentaur@...> wrote:
> Just checking to see what Alt-155 will produce on the list message:
> ¢. It appears correctly on the edit screen and on the preview
> screen.
Looks fine here.
> >"virgule".
>
> IMO it's a shame so many call it a "slash"! The "\" (popularly
> known as a backslash) has a proper name, too, but I can't think of
> it. Dictionaries ought to have entries such as:
> (under "virgule) "BTW, the _\_ is called a _____."
The only "proper" name I've seen for it is "reverse virgule".
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Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>