The Jargon File (version 4.4.7, 29 Dec 2003):

Commonwealth Hackish
 n.

    Hacker jargon as spoken in English outside the U.S., esp. in the British
    Commonwealth. It is reported that Commonwealth speakers are more likely to
    pronounce truncations like ?char? and ?soc?, etc., as spelled (/char/, /sok
    /), as opposed to American /keir/ and /sohsh/. Dots in newsgroup names
    (especially two-component names) tend to be pronounced more often (so
    soc.wibble is /sok dot wib'l/ rather than /sohsh wib?l/).

    Preferred metasyntactic variables include blurgle, eek, ook, frodo, and
    bilbo; wibble, wobble, and in emergencies wubble; flob, banana, tom, dick
    , harry, wombat, frog, fish, womble and so on and on (see foo, sense
    4). Alternatives to verb doubling include suffixes -o-rama, frenzy (as in
    feeding frenzy), and city (examples: ?barf city!? ?hack-o-rama!? ?core dump
    frenzy!?).

    All the generic differences within the anglophone world inevitably show
    themselves in the associated hackish dialects. The Greek letters beta and
    zeta are usually pronounced /bee't@/ and /zee?t@/; meta may also be
    pronounced /mee't@/. Various punctuators (and even letters - Z is called
    ?zed?, not ?zee?) are named differently: most crucially, for hackish, where
    Americans use ?parens?, ?brackets? and `braces' for (), [] and ,
    Commonwealth English uses ?brackets?, ?square brackets? and ?curly
    brackets?, though ?parentheses? may be used for the first; the exclamation
    mark, ?!?, is called pling rather than bang and the pound sign, ?#?, is
    called hash; furthermore, the term ?the pound sign? is understood to mean
    the ? (of course). Canadian hacker slang, as with mainstream language,
    mixes American and British usages about evenly.

    See also attoparsec, calculator, chemist, console jockey, fish, 
    go-faster stripes, grunge, hakspek, heavy metal, leaky heap, lord
    high fixer, loose bytes, muddie, nadger, noddy, psychedelicware,
    raster blaster, RTBM, seggie, spod, sun lounge, terminal junkie
    , tick-list features, weeble, weasel, YABA, and notes or
    definitions under Bad Thing, barf, bogus, chase pointers, cosmic
    rays, crippleware, crunch, dodgy, gonk, hamster, hardwarily, 
    mess-dos, nybble, proglet, root, SEX, tweak, womble, and 
    xyzzy.


The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (30 December 2018):

Commonwealth Hackish

    Hacker jargon as spoken outside the US, especially in
   the British Commonwealth.  It is reported that Commonwealth
   speakers are more likely to pronounce truncations like "char"
   and "soc", etc., as spelled (/char/, /sok/), as opposed to
   American /keir/ and /sohsh/.  Dots in newsgroup names
   (especially two-component names) tend to be pronounced more
   often (so soc.wibble is /sok dot wib'l/ rather than /sohsh
   wib'l/).  The prefix meta may be pronounced /mee't*/;
   similarly, Greek letter beta is usually /bee't*/, zeta is
   usually /zee't*/, and so forth.  Preferred metasyntactic
   variables include blurgle, "eek", "ook", "frodo", and
   "bilbo"; "wibble", "wobble", and in emergencies "wubble";
   "banana", "tom", "dick", "harry", "wombat", "frog", fish,
   and so on and on (see foo).

   Alternatives to verb doubling include suffixes "-o-rama",
   "frenzy" (as in feeding frenzy), and "city" (examples: "barf
   city!"  "hack-o-rama!"  "core dump frenzy!").  Finally, note
   that the American terms "parens", "brackets", and "braces" for
   (), [], and  are uncommon; Commonwealth hackish prefers
   "brackets", "square brackets", and "curly brackets".  Also,
   the use of "pling" for bang is common outside the United
   States.

   See also attoparsec, calculator, chemist, console
   jockey, fish, go-faster stripes, grunge, hakspek,
   heavy metal, leaky heap, lord high fixer, loose bytes,
   muddie, nadger, noddy, psychedelicware, plingnet,
   raster blaster, RTBM, seggie, spod, sun lounge,
   terminal junkie, tick-list features, weeble, weasel,
   YABA, and notes or definitions under Bad Thing, barf,
   bum, chase pointers, cosmic rays, crippleware,
   crunch, dodgy, gonk, hamster, hardwarily,
   mess-dos, nibble, proglet, root, SEX, tweak and
   xyzzy.

   [Jargon File]

   (1995-01-18)