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Started by lowena, July 04, 2013, 02:27:29 PM

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BRPXQZME

we are in a horrible and deadly danger

lowena

That's what I call it. :) I don't like "hash" because of my association of it with Twitter.

Disnesquick

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I had never heard of this strange naming until yesterday. Doing some diggin, it seems to originate from either a confusion with, or simplification of, the old typesetter pound sign "℔". I quite like the name "Octothorp" though for this symbol.
But yea, for all all of us Euro-folk pound is £. What would you guys call this one in your ambiguous-symbol-naming world?

assassin


Mauron

The currency doesn't come up in conversation a lot, and the symbol comes up even less.
Mauron wuz here.

puzzledude

Quote from: Disnesquick on July 23, 2013, 05:59:09 AM
But yea, for all all of us Euro-folk pound is £.
Exactly. I've never heard that the # is called a pound.


Quote from: Disnesquick on July 23, 2013, 05:59:09 AM
What would you guys call this one in your ambiguous-symbol-naming world?
In my neighbourhood it's called "ladder" or "little ladder". But this is of course in a non-english (phone/computer) terminology.

henke37

We Swedes call it "fyrkant" (literally four sided) within the context of phone numbers.

Avicalendriya

Quote from: Disnesquick on July 23, 2013, 05:59:09 AM
I had never heard of this strange naming until yesterday. Doing some diggin, it seems to originate from either a confusion with, or simplification of, the old typesetter pound sign "℔". I quite like the name "Octothorp" though for this symbol.
But yea, for all all of us Euro-folk pound is £. What would you guys call this one in your ambiguous-symbol-naming world?

Previously: Quid.

But I will now call £ "Squid" given this new information about mysterious Neocoleoidea characters.

Bregalad

In french # is called "dièze" in all situations, regardless if if it in music, computer programming, phones, or wathever. This is what makes the most sense.

£ is normally unused here, but it makes sense to call it "pound" if you ever travelled to U.K.