Pound sterling symbol and usenet posts
Charles Ellson wrote:
On Fri, 15 Feb 2008 08:27:17 +0000, David Hansen
wrote:
On Fri, 15 Feb 2008 00:35:02 +0000 someone who may be Tom Anderson
wrote this:-
There will also be some people who for bizarre reasons not worth going
into think that the symbol pronounced "pound" is a noughts-and-crosses
grid.
Astounding! As any fule know, this is called the octothorpe.
I call it a square.
As used previously on 1970s UK telephone keypads.
I thought it was called the portcullis.
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Bill.
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