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Having done a great deal of hand typesetting in my youth, perhaps I can help. Underlining was done with a type-high rule extending across a whole line (column) of type, for instance at the end of a paragraph or chapter. Underscoring required a

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

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

Sometimes for _ I read: - underline - underscore - and a word which begins with high... but I don't know the rest of it. Are there any rules to use them or can you just chose which one you would like to use?

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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

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