Re: # sign

[Suzanne Gerrior <Suzanne -dot- Gerrior -at- SOFTIMAGE -dot- COM>]

On the contrary, I've always lived in Canada (grew up in Nova Scotia which
probably has closer ties to Britain than a lot of other provinces) and always
referred to # as the pound sign.


Suzanne Gerrior


On Sep 29,  4:59pm, Matt Ion wrote:
> Subject: Re: # sign
> On Fri, 27 Sep 1996 11:41:15 EDT, Karen Molloy wrote:

> >>Hmmmmmmmmm..........  when did people stop calling the # sign the
> >>_pound_ sign?
> >
> >Many people outside the US have *never* called it the "pound" sign. Ask
someone
> >who speaks British English what the pound sign is. What they consider the
pound
> >sign is not the # symbol.

> Agreed, the "pound" sign in Britain is a squirly 'L' denoting currency
> (much like the dollar sign on this side of pond could be considered a
> squirly 'S' ;)

> Actually, calling '#' a pound sign doesn't have as much meaning to
> someone who's grown up in Canada in the last 30 years with the metric
> system, either.  "Pound" is what I do to the keyboard when Windows
> crashes and takes down the last two hours' work with it =)



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