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   From: mPiOsUcB.EtLlLvEp@att.net   
      
   On 22 Apr 2017 18:17:13 GMT, Frank Slootweg wrote:   
      
   > nospam  wrote:   
   >> In article , Steve Hayes   
   >>  wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> >> >>  there was no hash key on the screen.   
   >>> >> >   
   >>> >> >"hash" = "pound" = "sharp" =  "octothorp" = "tic-tac-toe-board" =   
   >>> >> >"number".   
   >>> >> >   
   >>> >> >'Zat help :-) ? Cheers, -- tlvp   
   >>> >>   
   >>> >> There wasn't a pound (£) key either.   
   >>> >   
   >>> >the # key is normally called a pound key, less often the other listed   
   >>> >names.   
   >>>   
   >>> £ is normally a "pound"   
   >>   
   >> for money yes. for phones, no.   
   >>   
   >>> # is a hash, or in certain constexts, a sharp. Calling it a "pound"   
   >>> key is very abnormal.   
   >>   
   >> it's not abnormal at all. it's the most common name.   
   >   
   >   Only in your US-centric world, it is.   
      
   He forgets that most of the world's languages don't have the word "pound"   
   to begin with; and those that, like German or French or Polish or Dutch,   
   have at least an equivalent, don't use that equivalent for pronouncing "#".   
   After all: Pfundt? Libre? Funt? Pond? -- Ridiculous! Cheers, -- tlvp   
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