By American English, Underline

Hi spinnaker,if you are asking about the ASCII symbol, then it should be "underscore" ---> _But when you see a word like this ---> word ----> that word is "underlined" (maybe also "underscored" in American English, but I think the usual word is still "underlined")Maybe the native...

Underline and underscore both means emphasizing but underscore is used in American English.The third word may be highlight.They seemed to me interchangable but lets wait for a native speaker answer.You know in English some words are used differently though they have the same meaning

Slam_54 @ yahoo - this dash is

We want to say: Underline Under_score It's so simple as well!

I'm just wondering now whether we could use a distinction between underline and underscore I think we could indeed. (But you all knew that already from my previous posts! )

CalifJim wrote:Gosh! There's been a lot of activity on this thread since I visited last. I'm just wondering now whether we could use a distinction between underline and underscore-- a distinction that has not yet made its way into dictionaries --and a symbol for each, i.e., underline: "U",...

Gosh! There's been a lot of activity on this thread since I visited last. My answer was simply an answer to the original poster, who asked what Americans called the symbol "_". Since I work in data processing in the U.S. and have seen that symbol daily for many years, I felt I could easily...

MrPedantic wrote: Well, you can use underlining on e.g. a typewriter That's it! I was thinking of the "_" key on a typewriter (from ancient times), not on a keyboard. So back to my earlier post in which I'm perplexed about where the disagreement stands on the question of the symbol. I...

Well, you can use underlining on e.g. a typewriter, or in handwritten texts, in place of italics (in scientific names, etc). And MS seems to have picked up on this, as any Word text surrounded by underscores is autocorrected to italics (if AutoCorrect is "on"). I think underscores are also used...

MrPedantic wrote: I don't think you can use the keyboard symbol _ to underline anything, can you? (In fact, it seems more usual to use it for creating italics.) MrP You're right. I don't know what I was thinking. How do you use it for italics?