In America, the telephones have 

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and every voice menu I've ever heard has called it "press pound sign for...". Aside from that, most usage outside of phones or business calls it "number sign" like in the stylized "#1" ("number one") written on first-place ribbons or something.

When I got started on Unix I thought "hash" was programmer slang, like "bang" is for the exclamation point. I picked it up and started using it out of a desire to join programmer culture. Now I've just learned it was a Brittish-ism :-)

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