Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!accuvax.nwu.edu!nucsrl!telecom-request From: John Slater Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Octothorpes Message-ID: <11512@accuvax.nwu.edu> Date: 29 Aug 90 13:18:32 GMT Sender: news@accuvax.nwu.edu Reply-To: John Slater Organization: sundc.East.Sun.COM 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 607, Message 8 of 11 In article <11381@accuvax.nwu.edu>, roeber@portia.caltech.edu (Roeber, Frederick) writes |> 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! '#` is called "hash" in the UK - I was convinced this was US in origin until I started reading TELECOM Digest. Also '!` is "shriek" for some people. When you say '#` is a pound sign, do you mean pounds as in weight (it's never used for that purpose in the UK), or pounds sterling? We have our own symbol for pounds sterling which I can't reproduce here as it's not part of ASCII, so we often use '#` for this purpose, especially in email. John Slater Sun Microsystems UK, Gatwick Office