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Subject:Re: What do you call that thingamajig From:"Parks, Beverly" <ParksB -at- EMH1 -dot- HQISEC -dot- ARMY -dot- MIL> Date:Tue, 15 Apr 1997 09:15:33 -0700
>Tracy Boyington wrote:
>>Speaking of "general audience," I remember a preview for a movie (a
>very bad one, probably) where an actress called it "universal symbol
>for no." I knew exactly what she was talking about.<
>
Sounds good to me. How about "the universal no symbol." I've also heard
it called the "slashed circle".
> Bev Parks
> parksb -at- emh1 -dot- hqisec -dot- army -dot- mil
>
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