This is true and is an exception. Even though punctuation is punctutation, we speak it so much more than most other people, so we've found it convenient to giv

This is true and is an exception. Even though punctuation is punctutation, we speak it so much more than most other people, so we've found it convenient to give it convenient, one-syllable names. Using the new names is, of course, completely optional. End-users will never even see them.