On Sun, 13 Feb 2005 02:56:20 GMT, blake murphy
> wrote:

> On Tue, 01 Feb 2005 23:13:47 -0800, sf > wrote:
>
> >On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 05:25:14 GMT, Rhonda Anderson
> > wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> Aah, now I can see why you would expect someone in the US to know that
> >> was a pound sign. Here, the automated phone systems say "followed by the
> >> hash key". That's the only name I've ever heard that key/symbol called
> >> by.
> >
> >We call it a "hash" mark too. It depends on the situation.
> >
> >sf
>
> isn't it 'number sign' as well?
>
Want to know what it's really called?
An octothorpe.




sf