Re: What Is the Purpose of a Line with only Two Semi-Colons?

> If so, why not just use a pound sign?

Ł?

Took me a while to find out that # is called the pound sign in NA... :)

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Re^2: What Is the Purpose of a Line with only Two Semi-Colons? by 1nickt (Canon) on Aug 24, 2015 at 03:58 UTC
LOL. I didn't want to say 'hash' because seemed prone to misinterpretation. 'She' from 'shebang'? Nah, worse! (time passes ...) Ooh! "Octothorn" -- I like that! `William Sherk in 500 Years of New Words (1983), p. 272, has the follow +ing entry: "Octothorn, The number sign (#); so called because there are eight poi +nts, or thorns, sticking out of it ..."` [download] cit. Yahoo Answers The way forward always starts with a minimal test.	[reply] [d/l]

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by 1nickt (Canon) on Aug 24, 2015 at 03:58 UTC

LOL. I didn't want to say 'hash' because seemed prone to misinterpretation. 'She' from 'shebang'? Nah, worse! (time passes ...) Ooh! "Octothorn" -- I like that!

William Sherk in 500 Years of New Words (1983), p. 272, has the follow
+ing entry: 
"Octothorn, The number sign (#); so called because there are eight poi
+nts, or thorns, sticking out of it ..."
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The way forward always starts with a minimal test.

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