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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
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