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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 variable]s 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], [plingnet], [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].