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In article >,
hahabogus > wrote:

> Melba's Jammin' > wrote in news:barbschaller-
> :
>
> > In article >,
> > George > wrote:
> >
> >> Melba's Jammin' wrote:
> >
> >> > It does have to do with cooking -- more than much posted here.
> >> > Janet, on our telephones it is referred to as "the pound sign."
> >>
> >> Its really the "octothorp"...
> >
> > Thank you.
> >
>
> It was called the pound sign because in britian the ocothorpe doesn't
> appear...the £ key is shift-3 instead...at least in the old days.

It's still like that on my keyboard, sorta.

3 Shifted is # and using the option key, I get £.
Probably the alt key on PC keyboards. I drive a Mac.
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