4 Jul
2016
4 Jul
'16
1:40 a.m.
On Fri, 1 Jul 2016, Norman Wilson wrote:
AT&T's original term for the 12th key on your phone was 'Octothorpe'.
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/octothorpe
It pretty quickly became 'pound', but for anybody under the age of 35 it's
now 'hashtag' (much to the dismay of music teachers...)
I suspect Yanks being pedantic about `slash'
versus `forward slash'
would give an Englishman a stroke.
If that's too oblique for some of you, I can't help.
Norman Wilson
Toronto ON
I think the proper term is "Virgule" anyway. ;)
-uso.