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?

    --
    perl -pe "s/\b;([mnst])/'\1/mg"

    In reply to Re: Re: Re: How do I pronounce all this stuff by belg4mit
    in thread How do I pronounce all this stuff by erikharrison

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