On Fri, 9 Dec 2005, at around 12:46:16 local time, Hoyt
<hoyt@cavtel.net> wrote:
>On Friday 09 December 2005 02:28, Bill & Skip Pugh wrote:
>> 23. *, pound
>
>The word "pound" for the symbol is incorrect in this uasge; it is an
>"octothorpe".
>
>However, the ITU-T (the group 'officially" in charge of this stuff and their
>spec is E.161 3.2.2) refers to the symbols respectively as "star" and
>"square". I think the Europeans just didn't like the USA origin of
>"octothorpe".
This European never heard it before today - but he loves it. Far less
confusing than "square" anyway, and more amusing than "hash".
If "#" is a pound sign to Americans, what do they (you) call the
copperplate capital L with a cross-bar that we have called a pound sign
for the past millennium or two?
ATB
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Mike
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