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From: roeber@portia.caltech.edu (Roeber, Frederick)
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Subject: Octothorpes
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In article <11334@accuvax.nwu.edu>, JMS@mis.Arizona.EDU (Programmin'
up a storm.) writes...

>On a similar vein: there was a discussion several years ago about the
># sign.  While this may be called "octothorpe" in Bell parlance, 

Along with the usual "wham" (or "bang") for `!', "splat" for `*',
"hat" for `^', and sometimes "hunh" for `?', I've often heard and used
"thud" for `#'.  (thud as in pound, `#' can be a pound sign.)
"Octothorpe," indeed!


Frederick