On 2016-01-05 20:55, Colin Campbell wrote:
On 16-01-05 09:47 PM, Andrew Bernard wrote:
According to the Unicode Standard 6.2, this is u0023, which is
designated Number Sign, and also known equivalently as:
pound sign, hash, crosshatch, octothorpe
I have always called it octothorpe, mostly because it is just such a
great word!
I wonder if the spaces delimited by the lines are thorpes? I' also
carpent for a living, though.
Fun fact -- the term "octothorpe" was completely fabricated and doesn't
have an etymology. It started out as an in-joke at Bell Labs:
http://dougkerr.net/Pumpkin/articles/Octatherp.pdf
A lot of young people today call the symbol a "hashtag." Some might
scoff at this since a hashtag is an application of a hash and not the
symbol itself, but hey, metonymy is metonymy.
Nathan
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