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From: "Donald E. Kimberlin" <0004133373@mcimail.com>
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Subject: Re: Octothorpes
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Date: 2 Sep 90 18:51:00 GMT
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X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 10, Issue 615, Message 4 of 9


 
Clive writes (in Digest V10,Iss614):

>On the subject of what to call '#' - The British Telecom
>announcements on System X exchanges call it 'SQUARE'... recently
>talking to a BT operator that was the term I used, only to confuse
>the operator, and she said, 'Oh you mean HASH, no-one ever calls it
>SQUARE'.

And so we see how Telcos on both sides of the Atlantic confuse their
public with non-standard 'meta-jargon.' Also:

>I have heard some PABX units with synthesised speech call it 'GATE'.

Seems to sort of show how little the vast majority understands or
attempts to take benefit from the work of the CCITT, I guess.