Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!accuvax.nwu.edu!nucsrl!telecom-request From: David M Archer Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Octothorpes Message-ID: <11637@accuvax.nwu.edu> Date: 2 Sep 90 05:55:58 GMT Sender: news@accuvax.nwu.edu Reply-To: v116kznd@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu Organization: TELECOM Digest Lines: 24 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 615, Message 3 of 9 In article <11627@accuvax.nwu.edu>, cca@cs.exeter.ac.uk (Clive Carmock) writes... >On the subject of what to call '#' - The British Telecom announcements >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 >synthesised speech call it 'GATE'. I'm surpised that no-one's ever mentioned "that little tic-tac-toe button" yet. I mean, that's what >I< always have to call it when trying to get people to know what I mean. (And in my experience, you can pretty much forget about "asterisk", I've had to call it the star button.) After all, not everyone who uses a phone is as technically orientated as I assume the people who read this group are. I sometimes wonder if they should have just called those buttons A&B. I know about the "extra" 4 keys A-D, but they could have given those keys the "weird" symbols instead, considering that a normal phone isn't supposed to have them. I guess we can be thankfull they didn't label them with '&' and '~'.