[1] : Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001)

commonwealth hackish n. hacker jargon as spoken in english outside the
   u.s., esp. in the british commonwealth. it is reported that commonwealth
   speakers are more likely to pronounce truncations like `char' and `soc',
   etc., as spelled /char/, /sok/, as opposed to american /keir/ and
   /sohsh/. dots in newsgroup names especially two-component names tend
   to be pronounced more often so soc.wibble is /sok dot wib'l/ rather
   than /sohsh wib'l/.

   preferred metasyntactic variables include blurgle, `eek', `ook',
   `frodo', and `bilbo'; wibble, `wobble', and in emergencies `wubble';
   `flob', `banana', `tom', `dick', `harry', `wombat', `frog', fish,
   womble and so on and on see foo, sense 4. alternatives to verb
   doubling include suffixes `-o-rama', `frenzy' as in feeding frenzy,
   and `city' examples: "barf city" "hack-o-rama" "core dump frenzy".

   all the generic differences within the anglophone world inevitably
   show themselves in the associated hackish dialects. the greek letters
   beta and zeta are usually pronounced /bee't/ and /zee't/; meta may
   also be pronounced /mee't/. various punctuators and even letters - z
   is called `zed', not `zee' are named differently: most crucially, for
   hackish, where americans use `parens', `brackets' and `braces' for ,
    and {}, commonwealth english uses `brackets', `square brackets' and
   `curly brackets', though `parentheses' may be used for the first; the
   exclamation mark, `', is called pling rather than bang and the pound
   sign, `', is called hash; furthermore, the term `the pound sign' is
   understood to mean the pound currency symbol of course.

   see also attoparsec, calculator, chemist, console jockey,
   fish, go-faster stripes, grunge, hakspek, heavy metal, leaky
   heap, lord high fixer, loose bytes, muddie, nadger, noddy,
   psychedelicware, raster blaster, rtbm, seggie, spod, sun
   lounge, terminal junkie, tick-list features, weeble, weasel,
   yaba, and notes or definitions under bad thing, barf, bogus,
   bum, chase pointers, cosmic rays, crippleware, crunch,
   dodgy, gonk, hamster, hardwarily, mess-dos, nybble,
   proglet, root, sex, tweak, womble, and xyzzy.


see also:
newsgroup metasyntactic variable blurgle wibble fish womble 
foo attoparsec calculator chemist console jockey 
go-faster stripes grunge hakspek heavy metal leaky heap 
lord high fixer loose bytes muddie nadger noddy 
psychedelicware raster blaster rtbm seggie spod 
sun lounge terminal junkie tick-list features weeble weasel 
yaba bad thing barf bogus bum 
chase pointers cosmic rays crippleware crunch dodgy 
gonk hamster hardwarily mess-dos nybble 
proglet root sex tweak xyzzy 

[2] : The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03)

commonwealth hackish
     
        hacker jargon as spoken outside the us, especially in the
        british commonwealth.  it is reported that commonwealth
        speakers are more likely to pronounce truncations like "char"
        and "soc", etc., as spelled /char/, /sok/, as opposed to
        american /keir/ and /sohsh/.  dots in newsgroup names
        especially two-component names tend to be pronounced more
        often so soc.wibble is /sok dot wib'l/ rather than /sohsh
        wib'l/.  the prefix meta may be pronounced /mee't/;
        similarly, greek letter beta is usually /bee't/, zeta is
        usually /zee't/, and so forth.  preferred metasyntactic
        variables include blurgle, "eek", "ook", "frodo", and
        "bilbo"; "wibble", "wobble", and in emergencies "wubble";
        "banana", "tom", "dick", "harry", "wombat", "frog", fish,
        and so on and on see foo.
     
        alternatives to verb doubling include suffixes "-o-rama",
        "frenzy" as in feeding frenzy, and "city" examples: "barf
        city"  "hack-o-rama"  "core dump frenzy".  finally, note
        that the american terms "parens", "brackets", and "braces" for
        , , and {} are uncommon; commonwealth hackish prefers
        "brackets", "square brackets", and "curly brackets".  also,
        the use of "pling" for bang is common outside the united
        states.
     
        see also attoparsec, calculator, chemist, console
        jockey, fish, go-faster stripes, grunge, hakspek,
        heavy metal, leaky heap, lord high fixer, loose bytes,
        muddie, nadger, noddy, psychedelicware, plingnet,
        raster blaster, rtbm, seggie, spod, sun lounge,
        terminal junkie, tick-list features, weeble, weasel,
        yaba, and notes or definitions under bad thing, barf,
        bum, chase pointers, cosmic rays, crippleware,
        crunch, dodgy, gonk, hamster, hardwarily,
        mess-dos, nibble, proglet, root, sex, tweak, and
        xyzzy.
     
        jargon file
     
        1995-01-18
     
     
see also:
newsgroup meta metasyntactic variables blurgle fish foo 
bang attoparsec calculator chemist console jockey 
go-faster stripes grunge hakspek heavy metal leaky heap 
lord high fixer loose bytes muddie nadger noddy 
psychedelicware plingnet raster blaster rtbm seggie 
spod sun lounge terminal junkie tick-list features weeble 
weasel yaba bad thing barf bum 
chase pointers cosmic rays crippleware crunch dodgy 
gonk hamster hardwarily mess-dos nibble 
proglet root sex tweak xyzzy 
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