Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ames!sun-barr!apple!versatc!mips!prls!philabs!linus!raybed2!rayssd!jarsun1!drd!mark From: mark@drd.UUCP (Mark Lawrence) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: Pound sign (was Re: the Telephone Test) Keywords: names for the octothorpe Message-ID: <551@drd.UUCP> Date: 8 May 89 13:11:03 GMT References: <147@ixi.UUCP> <1558@cfa.cfa.harvard.EDU> <7104@bsu-cs.bsu.edu> Reply-To: mark@drd.UUCP (Mark Lawrence) Distribution: na Organization: DRD Corporation, Tulsa, OK Lines: 6 dhesi@bsu-cs.bsu.edu (Rahul Dhesi) wrote: [graphic elided] } This is often mislabelled as "pound sign", "number sign", "crosshatch", } "hash", etc. What about "sharp"?