XPost: comp.mobile.android   
   From: nospam@nospam.invalid   
      
   In article , Steve Hayes   
    wrote:   
      
   > >>   In a telephony context nobody with any common sense would call it a   
   > >> "pound".   
   > >   
   > >absolutely wrong.   
   >   
   > Absolutely right.   
      
   it's called pound in telephony contexts.   
      
   > This subthread started because I commented that my cell phone had   
   > instructed me to press the hash key, when I could not see it anywhere   
   > on the phone to press.   
      
   then you didn't look very hard.   
      
   > YOU then said that I should look for the pound sign, which I   
   > understand to be £, and I coluld not see that either. And anyway, the   
   > plastic auntie in the phone has said I should press the HASH key, not   
   > the pound key.   
      
   have you seen *any* phone with a £ key on it? no.   
      
   that means the pound key must be either * or #, since the rest of the   
   keys are numbers.   
      
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