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From: mmar@sphinx.UChicago.UUCP (Mitchell Marks)
Newsgroups: net.nlang
Subject: Re: question about names for symbols
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Date: Tue, 18-Jun-85 06:33:23 EDT
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I recall an article posted a Recording for the Blind, making recommendations
about names for symbols (these weren't their own conventions, but somebody
thought it useful and clipped it).  For   #    the suggested term was
'octothorp'.  The octo- part is clear enough, there are eight line-ends,
but I have no idea what the thorp was.


            -- Mitch Marks
               @ UChicago (linguistics)
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