[magicofpi]

Where are you from? I've actually never heard it before (in the US).

[_delirium]

I'm from the US, but I think I know it almost exclusively from Unix shell scripts and Perl documentation, where `foo` is called the "backtick operator".

[michaelcampbell]

Yes, I think it could be your (our) tech context more than geographical; I came up through the unix and perl worlds and am in the US, and have ONLY ever seen that as 'backtick'.

[Natsu]

Yeah, I thought backtick was pretty normal myself and I'm from the US.

I'm guessing you don't know Perl? I think that's where I learned to call it that.

[hesselink]

This is the only name for it I've heard here in the Netherlands.