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.

I've heard that on some IVRs but, to be honest, never understood it,
as it's not a square! Admittedly, if written/printed straight up
rather than, if you will, in italics, it contains a square... but the
eight prongs should preclude it rom being a square...

For the record, I call it a "hash".