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   From: hayesstw@telkomsa.net   
      
   On Sun, 16 Apr 2017 10:02:43 -0400, tlvp    
   wrote:   
      
   >On Sun, 16 Apr 2017 13:43:42 +0200, Steve Hayes wrote:   
   >   
   >> # is a hash, or in certain constexts, a sharp. Calling it a "pound"   
   >> key is very abnormal.   
   >   
   >Well, you have to understand that independent greengrocers in NYC used to   
   >(perhaps still do) indicate the weight of produce in pounds using not "lb"   
   >but "#" for "pound(s)" -- whence the insistence of nospam ... and of US   
   >telephony workers ... to refer to the "#" key as the "pound" key. Confuses   
   >many folks (in particular, musicians and tic-tac-toe lovers) as badly as   
   >calling the "*" key the "wildcard" key would do :-) , yet pleases others.   
      
   Our greengrocer's [sic] use kg.   
      
      
      
      
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