Other sources suggest that Mr Kerr’s story is fabricated or unreliable, and 
etymologists regard such stories with caution.

http://www.worldwidewords.org/weirdwords/ww-oct1.htm

Amusingly, myself, apart from enjoying the word octothorpe, I also call it 
‘sharp’ (incorrectly), which brings us back to music!

Andrew


On 6/01/2016, 17:39, "Nathan Ho" 
<lilypond-user-bounces+andrew.bernard=gmail....@gnu.org on behalf of 
nat...@snappizz.com> wrote:

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

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