That's a pretty specious argument.
In any event the name of # is of great debate.
There are many terms (most listed
in the two links I provided earlier (higher up, below.)
The Useless Pages used to have an entire section dedicated to this, I cannot find it now
Octothorpe
Despite the actual definition I had heard Sesquipedalian as a contender
Interesting observation
If - is a bithorpe and # is an octothorpe, why isn't * a hexathorpe?
And if - is a bithorpe and = is a quadrathorpe, what's +?
And furthermore, what's a thorpe?
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perl -pe "s/\b;([mnst])/'\1/mg"
