As programmers, we deal with a lot of unusual keyboard characters that typical users rarely need to type, much less think about.

Even the characters that are fairly regularly used in everyday writing -- such as the humble dash, parens, period, and question mark -- have radically different meaning in programming languages.

Read the full thing at http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2008/06/ascii-pronunciation-rules-for-programmers.html