Speaking Code

When we code, we come across a lot of characters that are rarely spoken which can lead to common miscommunication.

Character Names

You should be familiar with the primary names. This is a simplified version of this post.

Character	Primary Name	Other Names
-	dash	minus, hyphen
_	underscore	under, underline
~	tilde	squiggle, not
&	ampersand	and sign
|	bar	pipe, or, vertical line
`	backtick	back quote, grave accent
^	caret	up arrow, xor
*	asterisk	star, wildcard, glob
.	dot	period, decimal point
”	quote	double quote, quotation mark
’	apostrophe	single quote, prime
/	slash	forward slash
\	backslash	escape character
%	percent sign	mod
#	hash	pound
<	less than
>	greater than
(	opening parenthesis	open paren, left paren
)	closing parenthesis	close paren, right paren
[	opening bracket	left bracket, opeining square bracket
]	closing bracket	right bracket, closing square bracket
{	opeing brace	left brace, opening curly brace
}	closing brace	right brace, closing curly brace
@	at sign	at
$	dollar sign
?	question mark
!	exclamation mark	bang, factorial
+	plus
=	equals
;	semicolon
:	colon
,	comma