How do I pronounce $var? Or $_? I

I pronounce $ as "dollar", or as "string". The latter is because I used to code in BASIC, where a dollar sign suffix denotes a string variable - I try to avoid that habit, but sometimes I fall back. Sometimes I just say "variable" instead of "dollar" (just to avoid confusion, I don't say scalar).

_ is "underscore", but sometimes I call $_ "default", instead of "dollar underscore".

These may be (probably are) wrong, but this is what I'm used to: 

=   is
==  equals
eq  equals (or "e q")
~   tilde
$   dollar, variable
^   caret (but <tt>$^W</tt> --> "variable control W")
@   at, array
%   hash
_   underscore
$_  default
@_  default array
{[( opening (or "left") curly, bracket, paren
}[( closing (or "right") curly, bracket, paren
:   colon
;   semicolon, stop
/   slash
\   backslash, escape
\n  newline (not "escape n")
\w  word
\s  whitespace
`   backtick
<>  glob, readline ("diamond" if without handle), tag (depending on co
+ntext)
<   less-than-sign, opening (left) angle
>   greater-than-sign, closing (right)angle
&   ampersand, and
&&  and (or "and and" to avoid confusion, "short and")
|   pipe, or
||  or (or "or or", "pipe pipe", "short or")
'   single quote
"   double quote
*   asterisk, times
--  decrease
++  increase
#   pound, comment, remark (not "hash" because of % :)

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I leave out parens and curlies where they're not optional. I often say "end of $control_structure" instead of "closing curly"
So this: 
while (<>) {
   s/\r/blah/;
   print $_ || "Empty\n";
}

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becomes: 
while diamond,
s slash carriage return slash blah slash, stop, 
print default, short or,
double quote titlecase empty, newline, double quote, stop.
end of while.

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Then again, my English is disastrous at best, so I don't think you should rely on this :) 

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In reply to Re: How do I pronounce all this stuff by Juerd
in thread How do I pronounce all this stuff by erikharrison

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