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From: Clive Carmock <cca@cs.exeter.ac.uk>
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Subject: Re: Octothorpes
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Date: 1 Sep 90 13:25:52 GMT
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X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 10, Issue 614, Message 7 of 9


On the subject of what to call '#' - The British Telecom announcements
on System X exchanges call it 'SQUARE'.  When I was recently talking
to a BT operator (I could get on of the star services to work) I
assumed that 'SQUARE' was the BT word for it, so that was the term I
used, only to confuse the operator, who asked me to describe the
symbol.  This I duly did, and she said 'Oh you mean HASH, no-one ever
calls it SQUARE'.  That being the case, you would think that BT would
change their announcements.  I have heard some PABX units with
synthesised speech call it 'GATE'.


Clive Carmock