octothorpe

A. Vine avine at ENG.SUN.COM
Thu Jun 29 18:09:50 UTC 2000


Yes.  I do.  And FWIW, the International Organization for Standardization (ISO)
calls it NUMBER SIGN.  Alternate names are: pound sign, hash, crosshatch,
octothorpe.  ISO calls @ "COMMERCIAL AT" with no alternate names.


"Peter A. McGraw" wrote:
>
> Didn't anybody but me ever call it the "number sign" (as in #1, #5, #57,
> etc.)?
>
> Peter Mc.
>
> --On Thu, Jun 29, 2000 1:45 PM -0500 GEORGE THOMPSON
> <thompsng at ELMER4.BOBST.NYU.EDU> wrote:
>
> > Around here, the # is called the "Pound key", which makes no sense to
> > me, since I had to be trained not to look for the swung L with a
> > stroke through the ascender -- in short, the symbol for English
> > currency.  Personally, I have been calling it the tictactoe sign,
> > being ignorant of an official name.
> >
> > GAT
>
> ****************************************************************************
>                                Peter A. McGraw
>                    Linfield College   *   McMinnville, OR
>                             pmcgraw at linfield.edu



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