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From: bobd@dshovax.UUCP
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Subject: Re: smail pronounciation
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Date: Fri, 27-Feb-87 13:17:18 EST
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In article <356@spar.SPAR.SLB.COM> singer@spar.UUCP (David Singer) writes:
>Does the 'pound sign' come from the fact that in UK ASCII this position
>is/was printed as a British poubd sterling currency marker?

If I remember correctly, the '$' in ASCII occupies the "national currency
symbol" position in the ISO character set standard. The British equivalent
puts the Pound Sterling symbol in that position, the Japanese the Yen symbol,
and I think a few other countries put their currency symbol there.