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   From: ithinkiam@gmail.com   
      
   nospam  wrote:   
   > 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.   
      
   Not in the UK. In all my life I've only ever heard it referred to as   
   "pound" by Americans or in a US-centric context.   
      
   The rest of the world can cope with the pound term as we've long learned to   
   deal with the US-centred world view e.g dates, "gas", dropping "u" in many   
   words, tipping   
      
   >> 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.   
      
   As a UK person unfamiliar with the pound nomenclature for the hash key, it   
   makes no sense to look for a different key when over here pound has a   
   single meaning. You were just adding confusion.   
      
   > that means the pound key must be either * or #, since the rest of the   
   > keys are numbers.   
      
   All mobile phones also have letters and + doubled up on the number keys.   
      
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