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Common: number sign; pound; pound sign; hash; sharp; crunch; hex; [mesh]. Rare: grid; crosshatch; octothorpe; flash; square, pigpen; tictactoe; scratchmark; thud; thump; splat.
$
Common: dollar; dollar sign. Rare: currency symbol; buck; cash; string (from BASIC); escape (when used as the echo of ASCII ESC); ding; cache; [big money].
%
Common: percent; percent sign; mod; grapes. Rare; [double-ohseven].
&
Common: ampersand; amper; and. Rare: address (from C); reference (from C++); andpersand; bitand; background (from sh(1)); pretzel; amp. [INTERCAL called this ampersand; what could be sillier?]
'
Common: single quote; quote; apostrophe. Rare: prime; glitch; tick; irk; pop; [spark]; closing single quotation mark; acute accent.
()
Common: l/r paren; l/r parenthesis; left/right; open/close; paren/thesis; o/c paren; o/c parenthesis; l/r parenthesis; l/r banana. Rare: so/already; lparen/rparen; opening/closing parenthesis; o/c round bracket, l/r round bracket, [wax/wanel; parenthisey/unparenthisey; l/r ear.
*
Common: star; [splat]; asterisk. Rare: wildcard; gear; dingle; mult; spider; aster; times; twinkle; glob (see glob); Nathan Hale.
+
Common: plus; add. Rare: cross; [intersection].
,
Common: comma. Rare: cedilla; [tail].
-
Common: dash; hyphen; minus. Rare: [worm]; option; dak; bithorpe.
.
Common: dot; point; period; decimal point. Rare: radix point; full stop; [spot].
/
Common: slash; stroke; slant; forward slash. Rare: diagonal; solidus; over; slak; virgule; [slat].
:
Common: colon. Rare: dots; [two-spot].
;
Common: semicolon; semi. Rare: weenie; [hybrid], pit-thwong.
<>
Common: less/greater than; bra/ket; l/r angle; l/r angle bracket; l/r broket. Rare: from/{into, towards}; read from/write to; suck/blow; comes-from/gozinta; in/out; crunch/zap (all from UNIX); [angle/right angle].

 
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