Pound sign (was Re: the Telephone Test)

[Brian Thomson]

In article <1334 at nusdhub.UUCP> rwhite at nusdhub.UUCP (Robert C. White Jr.) writes:
>Just because you (culutrally) have chosen to use a strange unit
>name for your currency dson't mean that every refrence to that
>unit refres to your curency. 

Noting that the words 'peso' and 'lira' both mean 'pound',  I'd say that
those of us whose currency is not named after a unit of weight are
the ones with the strange units.

				Yours for cultural kulturny,
-- 
		    Brian Thomson,	    CSRI Univ. of Toronto
		    utcsri!uthub!thomson, thomson at hub.toronto.edu