Re: Naes of ASCII Symbols
From Steve Barnard <ste...@megafauna.com>
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· 13 Jan 1998 00:00 · View full thread
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Ti-Blanc wrote: > > Kathy wrote: > > > > US English makes the same distinctions, at least where I am (NYC area). > > > > Incidentally, EVERYONE I know refers to # as "pound sign". (I'm referring > > to another thread I saw in this newsgroup.) Programmers, teachers, > > retirees. I only heard someone call it "octothorpe" once, and that guy was > > kidding around. Once every blue moon I hear it called "hash sign". > > I have never heard this # referred to as the pound sign. I usually hear > number sign. # has often been used to refer to pounds in weight. That's where "pound sign" comes from. Steve Barnard
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