in reply to Spoken Code

Americans think that # is a pound. It's a hash.
Don't be silly. It's an octothorpe.

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Re: Re: Spoken Code
by andyf (Pilgrim) on May 21, 2004 at 13:33 UTC
    From the link Ambrus gave below, it appears to be all our fault anyway, us Bristishers...

    "on British keyboards the £ happens to replace #; thus Britishers sometimes call # on a U.S.-ASCII keyboard ‘pound’, compounding the American error."
    Bloody Britishification.:)
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Re: Re: Spoken Code
by Ven'Tatsu (Deacon) on May 21, 2004 at 16:57 UTC
    To be percise Octothrope is the the name invented by a Bell Labs worker for it. At leaset acording to this account.
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