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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>Commonwealth Hackish</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../C.html" title="C"/><link rel="previous" href="comment-out.html" title="comment out"/><link rel="next" href="compact.html" title="compact"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">Commonwealth Hackish</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="comment-out.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">C</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="compact.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="Commonwealth-Hackish"/><dt xmlns="" id="Commonwealth-Hackish"><b>Commonwealth Hackish</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> Hacker jargon as spoken in English outside the U.S., esp. in the
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British Commonwealth. It is reported that Commonwealth speakers are more
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likely to pronounce truncations like ‘char’ and
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‘soc’, etc., as spelled (<span class="pronunciation">/char/</span>, <span class="pronunciation">/sok/</span>), as opposed to American <span class="pronunciation">/keir/</span> and <span class="pronunciation">/sohsh/</span>. Dots in
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<a href="../N/newsgroup.html"><i class="glossterm">newsgroup</i></a> names (especially two-component names)
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tend to be pronounced more often (so soc.wibble is <span class="pronunciation">/sok dot wib´l/</span> rather than <span class="pronunciation">/sohsh wib´l/</span>).</p><p>Preferred <a href="../M/metasyntactic-variable.html"><i class="glossterm">metasyntactic variable</i></a>s include
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<a href="../B/blurgle.html"><i class="glossterm">blurgle</i></a>, <b class="command">eek</b>,
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<b class="command">ook</b>, <b class="command">frodo</b>,
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and <b class="command">bilbo</b>; <a href="../W/wibble.html"><i class="glossterm">wibble</i></a>,
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<b class="command">wobble</b>, and in emergencies <b class="command">wubble</b>; <b class="command">flob</b>,
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<b class="command">banana</b>, <b class="command">tom</b>, <b class="command">dick</b>, <b class="command">harry</b>, <b class="command">wombat</b>,
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<b class="command">frog</b>, <a href="../F/fish.html"><i class="glossterm">fish</i></a>,
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<a href="../W/womble.html"><i class="glossterm">womble</i></a> and so on and on (see
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<a href="../F/foo.html"><i class="glossterm">foo</i></a>, sense 4). Alternatives to verb doubling
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include suffixes <span class="firstterm">-o-rama</span>, <span class="firstterm">frenzy</span> (as in feeding frenzy), and <span class="firstterm">city</span> (examples: “<span class="quote">barf city!</span>”
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“<span class="quote">hack-o-rama!</span>” “<span class="quote">core dump frenzy!</span>”).</p><p>All the generic differences within the anglophone world inevitably
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show themselves in the associated hackish dialects. The Greek letters beta
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and zeta are usually pronounced <span class="pronunciation">/bee´t@/</span> and <span class="pronunciation">/zee´t@/</span>; meta may also be
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pronounced <span class="pronunciation">/mee´t@/</span>.
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Various punctuators (and even letters - Z is called ‘zed’, not
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‘zee’) are named differently: most crucially, for hackish,
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where Americans use ‘parens’, ‘brackets’ and
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`braces' for (), [] and {}, Commonwealth English uses
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‘brackets’, ‘square brackets’ and ‘curly
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brackets’, though ‘parentheses’ may be used for the
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first; the exclamation mark, ‘!’, is called pling rather than
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bang and the pound sign, ‘#’, is called hash; furthermore, the
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term ‘the pound sign’ is understood to mean the £ (of
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course). Canadian hacker slang, as with mainstream language, mixes
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American and British usages about evenly.</p><p>See also <a href="../A/attoparsec.html"><i class="glossterm">attoparsec</i></a>,
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<a href="calculator.html"><i class="glossterm">calculator</i></a>, <a href="chemist.html"><i class="glossterm">chemist</i></a>,
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<a href="console-jockey.html"><i class="glossterm">console jockey</i></a>, <a href="../F/fish.html"><i class="glossterm">fish</i></a>,
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<a href="../G/go-faster-stripes.html"><i class="glossterm">go-faster stripes</i></a>, <a href="../G/grunge.html"><i class="glossterm">grunge</i></a>,
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<a href="../H/hakspek.html"><i class="glossterm">hakspek</i></a>, <a href="../H/heavy-metal.html"><i class="glossterm">heavy metal</i></a>,
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<a href="../L/leaky-heap.html"><i class="glossterm">leaky heap</i></a>, <a href="../L/lord-high-fixer.html"><i class="glossterm">lord high fixer</i></a>,
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<a href="../L/loose-bytes.html"><i class="glossterm">loose bytes</i></a>, <a href="../M/muddie.html"><i class="glossterm">muddie</i></a>,
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<a href="../N/nadger.html"><i class="glossterm">nadger</i></a>, <a href="../N/noddy.html"><i class="glossterm">noddy</i></a>,
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<a href="../P/psychedelicware.html"><i class="glossterm">psychedelicware</i></a>,
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<a href="../R/raster-blaster.html"><i class="glossterm">raster blaster</i></a>, <a href="../R/RTBM.html"><i class="glossterm">RTBM</i></a>,
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<a href="../S/seggie.html"><i class="glossterm">seggie</i></a>, <a href="../S/spod.html"><i class="glossterm">spod</i></a>,
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<a href="../S/sun-lounge.html"><i class="glossterm">sun lounge</i></a>, <a href="../T/terminal-junkie.html"><i class="glossterm">terminal junkie</i></a>,
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<a href="../T/tick-list-features.html"><i class="glossterm">tick-list features</i></a>, <a href="../W/weeble.html"><i class="glossterm">weeble</i></a>,
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<a href="../W/weasel.html"><i class="glossterm">weasel</i></a>, <a href="../Y/YABA.html"><i class="glossterm">YABA</i></a>, and notes or
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definitions under <a href="../B/Bad-Thing.html"><i class="glossterm">Bad Thing</i></a>,
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<a href="../B/barf.html"><i class="glossterm">barf</i></a>, <a href="../B/bogus.html"><i class="glossterm">bogus</i></a>,
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<a href="chase-pointers.html"><i class="glossterm">chase pointers</i></a>, <a href="cosmic-rays.html"><i class="glossterm">cosmic rays</i></a>,
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<a href="crippleware.html"><i class="glossterm">crippleware</i></a>, <a href="crunch.html"><i class="glossterm">crunch</i></a>,
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<a href="../D/dodgy.html"><i class="glossterm">dodgy</i></a>, <a href="../G/gonk.html"><i class="glossterm">gonk</i></a>,
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<a href="../H/hamster.html"><i class="glossterm">hamster</i></a>, <a href="../H/hardwarily.html"><i class="glossterm">hardwarily</i></a>,
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<a href="../M/mess-dos.html"><i class="glossterm">mess-dos</i></a>, <a href="../N/nybble.html"><i class="glossterm">nybble</i></a>,
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<a href="../P/proglet.html"><i class="glossterm">proglet</i></a>, <a href="../R/root.html"><i class="glossterm">root</i></a>,
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<a href="../S/SEX.html"><i class="glossterm">SEX</i></a>, <a href="../T/tweak.html"><i class="glossterm">tweak</i></a>,
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<a href="../W/womble.html"><i class="glossterm">womble</i></a>, and <a href="../X/xyzzy.html"><i class="glossterm">xyzzy</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="comment-out.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../C.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="compact.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">comment out </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> compact</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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