~ ! @ # $ % ^ & * ( ) _ + = ` { } [ ] | \ : ; " ' < > , . ?

tilde (sounds like til-da); be prepared to explain to computer-illiterate people saying "you know, the wave-shaped thingy" exclamation; commonly read as bang in case of #!/bin/sh at pound; but commonly read as shee in case of #!/bin/sh, not sure why dollar percent caret; not many people know this word so be prepared to say "no, not carrot; it's the character above 6, an arrow pointing up" ampersand star; some read asterisk opening parenthesis (some may shorten it saying paren) closing parenthesis underscore; once I heard people say underbar plus minus; as symbol before arguments in commands, some people including me read dash, easier to say one syllable equals backtick or backquote opening brace closing brace opening bracket closing bracket pipe or vertical bar backslash; be prepared to explain to some computer-illiterate people colon semicolon double quote single quote less than; some may read left angle bracket greater than comma dot; period if in English text question mark slash or forward slash; some computer-illiterate people may be confused about / and \ space may also be called brackets in general. In that case, they specifically call [] square brackets and {} curly brackets. I never like this. Open and Closing may also be called left and right.

(), [] and {}