word choice - What Is the Real Name of the #? - English Language . . . The musical sharp (♯) is technically a different character from the octothorpe (#), though they are superficially similar The Wikipedia article describes the origin of the alternative names number sign, pound sign, and hash among others
What is a thorpe? - English Language Usage Stack Exchange 11 # is an octothorpe * is a hexathorpe + a quadrathorpe - a duothorpe but What is a thorpe??? This question came from an argument in comments on stackoverflow that started over an American calling a # a pound sign
When and how did the word hashtag come about? [duplicate] For octothorpe, 1971 That said, I was born in 1958 I remember it as "octothorpe," and what a rotary telephone looked like before any # in the rotary dial When "Ma Bell," or Bell Telephone Systems, AT T had a country wide monopoly on America's telephone system A system complete with manual handset A 3 or 4 digit telephone number
In the U. S. , why is octothorp used to signal an apartment at a . . . That Wikipedia article about the symbol uses the word hash 15 times, whereas it only uses octothorp 3 times (plus a few references to the alternative spellings octothorpe, octathorp, octatherp) Maybe this is a US UK split, but I certainly wasn't aware the term octothorp was "well known"
Why is the word hash associated with the # character? The '#' symbol has many names, but hash is the one that confuses me I know the etymology of the word 'hash', but how did it become associated with that character?
Hashtag vs hash tag - English Language Usage Stack Exchange The octothrope character (#) is called "hash" by those that don't know any better "Tag" is a general term for something that labels or identifies something else to which it's attached A "hashtag", as used in Twitter, et al, thus is a tag that uses the octothorpe character as a "trigger" character to mark it's start It doesn't get any deeper than that
history - English Language Usage Stack Exchange According to @Mahnax's answer to this question, the Chicago Manual of Style Online states that the correct sequence of footnote symbols is as follows: * (asterisk; but do not use if p values occu
How to say * and - English Language Usage Stack Exchange The original design used a symbol with six points, but an asterisk (*) with five points commonly appears in printing [citation needed] "#" is officially called the number sign key, but other names such as pound key, hash key, hex key, octothorpe, gate, and square, are common, depending national or personal preference
single word requests - What do you call this sign: #? - English . . . 3 I think it depends on the context you are in as the sign itself goes by many names - all of which are equally valid I've even read a programming manual in which it was referred to by its formal name: octothorpe See this article also