How many punctuation marks do English speakers use?

MissDirect   Tuesday, June 22, 2004, 18:53 GMT
These are the ones I got so far, but I am also interested in what you guys call them all too. I understand that there is a heck of a lot of variation in punctuation terminology.
.
,
!
"
*
()
[]
;
:
'
?
/
>
~
#
Thanks in advance.
Julian   Tuesday, June 22, 2004, 20:17 GMT
What <I> call them

. - period
, - comma
! - exclamation mark
" - double quotation mark
* - asterisk
() - parentheses
[] - square brackets
; - semicolon
: - colon
' - apostrophe or single quotation mark
? - question mark
/ - slash
> - "greater than" (sign; angle bracket)
~ - tilde or "squiggly hyphen"
# - pound sign or number sign
Damian   Tuesday, June 22, 2004, 21:40 GMT
Julian..... # ? A pound sign? Are you really sure?
Jim   Wednesday, June 23, 2004, 06:46 GMT
Yeah, Damian, believe it or not it's called a "pound sign" in North America. I was so puzzled by that when I was in Canada.

What I call them:

. - full stop
, - comma
! - exclamation mark
" - double inverted comma
* - asterisk
() - parentheses or brackets
[] - square brackets
; - semicolon
: - colon
' - apostrophe or single inverted comma
? - question mark
/ - slash
> - "greater than" (sign; angle bracket)
~ - tilde
# - hash or number sign

There are more but I've got to be off.
Jeff   Wednesday, June 23, 2004, 16:44 GMT
@ at sign
& ampersand
... ellipsis or dot dot dot
$ dollar sign
% percent sign
Jim   Thursday, June 24, 2004, 00:03 GMT
. full stop, decimal point or dot
= equals sign
- negative sign, subtraction sign, minus sign or hyphen
+ positive sign, addition sign, plus sign
\ back slash
< less than sign
<> angle brackets