What's the name of the "backwards" apostrophe?

[Syringer]

This thing: `

It's the lowercase version of the tilde ~, next to the 1/! on the keyboard.

 

[coldmeat]

2 seconds using google

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grave_accent

 

[kranky]

At work we call it the backquote.

 

[slayer202]

It's called

 

[DominionSeraph]

Use in programming
Programmers have used the grave accent symbol by itself (i.e. not combined with some letter) for a number of tasks. In this role, it is known as a backquote or backtick.

 

[CurseTheSky]

SELECT * FROM `mytbl` WHERE `mytbl`.`field` = '1';

MySQL is the first thing that came to mind.

 

[Whoozyerdaddy]

spider?

 

[dwell]

backtick

 

[gophins72]

i've heard it called "backtick" or just "tick"

 

[Aikouka]

Grave. I believe it's also pronounced grah-vuh.

 

[moshquerade]

your mom

 

[Kanalua]

`okina.

 

[marvdmartian]

your mom

Damn, Mosh....that was just harsh!!

backwards apostrophe would, of course, be called ehportsopa. :sneaky:

 

[sandorski]

We do not speak of this. Ban.

 

[lxskllr]

backwards apostrophe would, of course, be called ehportsopa. :sneaky:

Sounds vaguely Portuguese :^D

 

[Bateluer]

I believe its called a backtick.

 

[Wyndru]

SELECT * FROM `mytbl` WHERE `mytbl`.`field` = '1';

MySQL is the first thing that came to mind.

I wish more languages would adopt this. I hate screwing around with escape chars.