Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!accuvax.nwu.edu!nucsrl!telecom-request From: Larry Jones Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Octothorpe as the Name for # Message-ID: <10293@accuvax.nwu.edu> Date: 30 Jul 90 21:05:29 GMT Sender: news@accuvax.nwu.edu Organization: SDRC, Cincinnati Lines: 23 Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 10, Issue 533, Message 10 of 11 On a local radio station's call-in trivia show, a listener posed the question "What is the correct name for the '#' character on a telephone?", with the answer being, of course, "octothorpe". Although the hosts are trusting sorts who are inclined to believe anything listeners tell them (within reason), they asked for some source whereby they could verify the information. Looking through my (extremely limited) library of telecom stuff wasn't productive, so I was wondering if anyone knew of a reference that could be found at a reasonably large public or university library that would mention octothorpe. Larry Jones UUCP: uunet!sdrc!thor!scjones SDRC scjones@thor.UUCP 2000 Eastman Dr. BIX: ltl Milford, OH 45150-2789 AT&T: (513) 576-2070 [Moderator's Note: We seem to have come full circle here. Tell the DJ's to check out the special issue of TELECOM Digest about a year and a half ago, "All You Ever Wanted to Know About Octothorpes". Maybe I will re-run that special issue sometime soon. It is in the Telecom Archives. PT]