symbol-pronounciation.md

Symbol Pronounciation

[...] each glyph has its own monosyllabic name, designed to be pronounced quickly in combination with another glyph to form a rune name. As languages are often read-aloud, this saves the programmer from having to say "dollar sign, question mark"--"bucwut" is much more compact.

– Hoon documentation

symbol	pronounciation
|	bar
$	buc
%	cen
:	col
.	dot

| hax

^ | ket ; | sem ~ | sig = | tis ? | wut ! | zap

Irregular pronuncations

To avoid a few tongue-twisters, some runes have irregular pronunciations that should be noted

– Hoon documentation

symbol	pronounciation
--	hephep
+-	lushep
++	luslus
==	tistis