Pound sign (was Re: the Telephone Test)

[Pete Holsberg]

In article <7104 at bsu-cs.bsu.edu> dhesi at bsu-cs.bsu.edu (Rahul Dhesi) writes:
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=This is often mislabelled as "pound sign", "number sign", "crosshatch",
="hash", etc.
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	<examples omitted>

=The correct name for this figure is therefore the "tac sign" or just
=the "tac".  (Cobol programmers may prefer the full name "tic-tac-toe
=sign.")
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>From the (universal) world of music comes the name "sharp" for the "#" symbol.
sharp include ess tee dee eye oh dot aitch.  Hmmmm.
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