XPost: comp.mobile.android   
   From: hayesstw@telkomsa.net   
      
   On Mon, 24 Apr 2017 00:54:51 -0400, 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.   
      
   Maybe it is in New York, where they blike to confuse peop-le from out   
   of town. But guess what -- New York is not the whole world.   
      
   >> 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.   
      
   No matter how hard you look, if it's not there, it's not there.   
      
   >> 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.   
      
   Yes.   
      
   The phone I was having the difficulty with has a numperic and symbol   
   key set for sending SMS.   
      
   The top line is numerals.   
      
   The second line begins   
      
   @ # £   
      
   In other words, "At" "Hash" "Pound"   
      
   >that means the pound key must be either * or #, since the rest of the   
   >keys are numbers.   
      
      
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