2012 Word of the Year: "hashtag"

[Jonathan Lighter]

JL:<<< you-know-that
thing-like-a-tic-tac-toe-board-or-design-or-what-do-you-call-it>>>

That was the term in my native idiolect. Much  later I learned "pound sign"
from telephone robots.

JL


On Sun, Jan 6, 2013 at 12:49 PM, W Brewer <brewerwa at gmail.com> wrote:

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> Subject:  hashtag
> FS: <<<octothorpe">>>
> LH: <<<crosshatch (> hash), pound sign>>>
> GASH: <<<cross-hatch, double cypher>>>
> WG: <<<pound-sign>>>
> WB: double-cross, tic-tac-toe (three in a row)
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