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RE: bang bang ? = [Ex point ]



When reading out loud, journalists, typesetters, and proofreaders frequently
call exclamation points "bangs" or "bangers" because it's much easy to say
than "ex-cla-ma-tion point."

-----Original Message-----
From: Daniel Say [mailto:say@xxxxxxxx]
Sent: Thursday, September 17, 1998 4:05 PM
To: xywrite@xxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: bang bang ? = [Ex point ]


"bang bang" ?

	"bang" is the name of the exclamation mark or
	exclamation point in Unix-language.

	I'll leave to someone else to dig up the
	etymology of "bang"=!

					dsay
					say@xxxxxxxx